Look you guys, I don’t want to alarm you but the robots are coming! Also, it seems that some people think that while technology tries to connect us, it is actually driving us apart. And by some people I mean MIT professor of the social studies of science and technology, Sherry Turkle. Her new book, Alone Together, examines the way people interact with technology in our highly connected world. What a waste of time! She could have just come and talked to Kaggers and I. We have developed the ideal way to balance technology with the real world. It’s just a little something we call living life.
I wasn’t kidding with you about the robots. According to Turkle we are experiencing “the robotic moment”. WHAT THE FACEBOOK?! Don't panic, that just means we don’t have robots but we are getting philosophically prepared for them. Kaggers, I want you to know something, I would never replace you with a friendbot. Sure a robot would never talk back and would be okay with doing my laundry for me but wherefore the banter? Wherefore the humanity? Plus I hear robots make shitty co-blog writers.
You see the thing is, pals, we just have to learn how to use technology to our social advantage. We have to remember to keep one foot in the real world as we tweet toward tomorrow. Jonah Lehrer’s New York Times review of Turkle’s book draws the same conclusion: “In the end, it’s just another tool, an accessory that allows us to do what we’ve always done: interact with one other”. I could not have said that better myself, no wait I already did.
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