*People use texting more and more as a flight from conversations esp those that are open-ended and have tangents.
*People find ways around face-to-face convo, which is the most human, messy and uncertain, and the most important kind.
*we must do what we can to keep libraries as places of learning and connection, not just transactions.
*7 minute rule- it takes seven minutes to see where a convo will go. Most of us don't have convos that long any more.
*we have gotten used to edited life - without the boring bits and imperfections. Her MIT student don't come to office hours. They want a perfect email written to her and a perfect email back.
*Decline in empathy among college students - due to lack of connection to ppl thru technology
*Turkle says technology can make us forget what we know about life.
*solitutde is important to prepare yourself for time with others. We need the capacity to be alone and quiet but all that is shrinking in tech world.
*Conclusions- we need to reclaim conversation, capacity for solitude, empathy, sociability, unitasking.
Overall a fascinating talk by a "famous" expert and author of "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other".
During her talk, Ms. Turkle mentioned that her school teachers were so intent on sticking to a set program that they didn't have time to recommend books for her to read. But the librarian seemed to know that reading one book leads to another book and thus nurtured her desire for reading. It thought that was an interesting observations.
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