I'm one of the zero and ones that has embraced this brave new big data-filled world. But to what end? Does all this activity -- this buzz -- really bring us closer together?
There is no substitute for getting out from behind your computer screen or smartphone and forging deep, personal and meaningful connections with real human beings.
Alone Together blossomed out of their friendship and what began as correspondence by snail mail which continued through emails, with Mojabber Mourani pouring out her thoughts in English, and Yacoub Haddad expressing herself in Arabic.
In a sensual voice that sounds as if Teddy Lynch Getty Gaston just stepped off the stage of the night club, The New Yorker, where she was singing when she met J.Paul Getty, Sr., she reminisces. "Honey, he was drug addict."
"The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore" by Benjamin Hale New York Times Every first-person narrator creates himself out of words, but this process is pa...
Sherry Turkle. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other. (New York, Basic Books, 2011): $28.95. 384 pages. Michael...
Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author of the new book "Alone Together," told Stephen Colbert "we have to put technology in its place" on "The Colber...
Textspeak, I realized, isn't just English gutted into a naked, shivering skeleton of its former elegance. It's a completely new language.
