Diagnosing The Digital Revolution Alison Gopnick Summary
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Alison Gopnick argues in her essay “Diagnosing the Digital Revolution: Why It’s So Hard to Tell if It’s Really Changing Us” that the assumption made by digital pessimists that technology “will lead to devalued and alienated lives rather than enriched ones” (Gopnick 430) is an unfounded and, in some respects, an inaccurate depiction of the digital revolution. However, Gopnick does not entirely discredit – or disagree with – the arguments made by digital pessimists like Sherry Turkle; instead, she points out that the problem with these arguments is that they are abstract, and the “negative effects” they predict remain undefined and obscure. She sets an eerily sarcastic tone when she begins the essay with an autobiographical illustration from