Read Sherry Turkle “The End of Forgetting,” pages 565-576.
Answer the following questions:
This essay excerpted from Sherry Turkle’s book Reclaiming Conversation considers the ways in which the advent of “talking machines” is changing the nature and meaning of “conversation”. What do we traditionally understand conversation to be? How, according to Turkle, is that understanding changing? What is her attitude towards these changes? What is yours?
Why are people so attracted to our new technologies or robots?
list all the machines that you talk to in one day; they could be programs, apps, devices, terminals, computers, robots, etc. Write an estimate of the total time in a day that you talk to these devices. Next, write three sentences why they play a key role in your communication.
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