Zabie Smith And Alone Together

In Alone Together by Sherry Turkle, she talks about a future where most human’s interaction takes place with robots. And in that future humans will be more interment and social with those robots then humans. In Speaking Tongues by Zabie Smith, she talks about the power of using different voices as people. She also explains why people also change their voices. Both essays give a better understanding of on how the human brain and minded works. They both talk about the factors that make up the human conduction. Also providing a hopefully view of the future for human kind. One way, is by figuring how our past experiences can give us self-benefit in the unfamiliar. Furthermore, it can help is dealing with fear. Our past experiences help …show more content…
One way we can do this is by changing our voices that we use to talk to other people. In Smith’s essay she talks about Obama and how he is every good at chancing his voices. She says “Obama can do young Jewish male, black old lady from the south side, white woman from Kansas, Kenyan elders, white Harvard nerds, black Columbia nerds, activist women, churchmen, security guards, bank tellers, and even a British man called Mr. Wilkerson, who on a starry night on safari says credibly British things like: I believe that’s the Milky Way” (Smith 250). What Obama does is change his tone and dictation to relate more to the people he is talking too. Smith also says that “This new president doesn’t just speak for his people. He can speak them” (Smith 250). She is telling us that Obama changing his voice helps him to give off the feel of a local person then a distant president that has no clue what is going on in mainstream America. He does this so that more people can support him, therefore making his life easier because he will have more political power to do the things he wants to do. In Turkle essay she tells us that “I once described the computer as a second self a mirror of mind” (Turkle 277). What she means by that is that we can use our past experiences with people others to figure out the best parts of ourselves and then only show those parts. This makes anyone that pass our second self believe that we are a great or cool person. This can make it easier for the person to get a job, make new friends or even find love. Obama is like a second mirror of the mind because changes parts of himself. He uses his passed experiences to make he more relatable to people. He gains a good amount for it. This is an example how we can use past experience to figure out how we can benefit from unfamiliar