Review Sherry Turkle's 'Connectivity And Its Discontents'
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Shivam Patel
English Composition
Professor Lancaster
September 26, 2014
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Technology has advanced over the last century along with the way people use it. Sherry Turkle the author of Connectivity and its Discontents, is trying to explain to the readers that technology changing the way people mobilize with there everyday lives. She describes how people are always using technology everywhere they possibly can in a negative manner. She also goes on describing depending on the way you use technology it will play as either negative role or a positive role. The only thing that people could use during the twentieth century was their walk-men’s or CD players, but now they listen to their iPods while texting others and multi-tasking. People using everything at once do not know how to manage time, because they cant deal with just listening to some music and walking to a destination they need to stay in contact with friends or social media. Sherry Turkle explains, “They were on their laptops and their phones, connecting to colleagues at the conference going on around them and to others around the globe”(Turkle 1). Explaining that even at a conference, people are still using technology as a negative role. At the conference they should be discussing about the…show more content… Turkle claims this girl she met Ellen, “would call her grandmother in Philadelphia using Skype”(1). The problem is not the fact that she is using technology to communicate instead of a phone, the issue is when Ellen admits, “I do my e-mails during the calls. I’m not really paying attention to our conversation”(1). What Turkle is try make people understand is that people do not want to focus on one thing; they want to have more than one thing going on at once. People of this generation love multitasking because of the advances of