Analysis Of Alone Together By Sherry Turkle

The world of technology has never stopped expanding. Since the early ages, man have wanted something new and tecnology is the only tool that helps satisfies a man’s desire for something unique. Sherry Turkle has explained how technology and robots are borrowing a part of us. She explains further on, in her article “Alone Together,” how people are becoming dependent on these gadgets. Turkle goes on to explain her explanation by using the word authentic. She wonders if people are genuine even though the age of technology has grown dramatically. Do people change their origin of being a human because of the growth of technology? Lauren Slater exemplifies how dependent we are to technology, creating us to be inauthentic. Her article, “Who Holds …show more content…
We see how people use technology to the point where they cannot live without technology. Technology is the only thing that could give people “comfort”. People are gluing their lives with technology. Turkle mentions how technology is becoming a part of us,” But technology makes us busier than ever and ever more in search of retreat. Gradually, we come to see our online life as life itself” (278). Here Turkle is describing how people lost their freedom towards technology that they have become dependent on it. As we enhance in using technology, people are unable to escape from it and they start having technology as part of life. Their freedom has disappeared from them. People are bonded to technology; they are unable to pull apart from the gadgets. People are closer to technology than being closer to themselves. Without technology people are unable to accomplish simple tasks. People are unable to expand on their lives without technology. We are too dependent on technology that we do not see us caring about ourselves. Instead, we only see these gadgets as a way to move on in life. Medical technology has the same impact as daily technology. People are unable to reverse their desires, instead they are bonded to continue their procedure even if a person would want to back out of it. Slater proves how people are unable to reverse their desires and how they are bonded by technology. Slater proves by stating, “Despite prescription regulations, there is tremendous freedom in being a pill popper. But not so for those with implants” (240). Slater wants her readers to know how a person could stop pill medicines through their choice, but “those with implants”, in other words people who have gone through surgery and get something inserted, are unable to make their choice of backing out. The psychiatrist has to inspect a