Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other

Is it a sure thing that we will devalue the concept of “love” the way Turkle thinks, or is Lindman more correct when she says that a machine can be authentic in the same way a person can be?   

What does Turkle mean when she says “the inauthentic as a new aesthetic”? 

What does Turkle mean when she says “the inauthentic as a new aesthetic”? 

Do Bruce’s and Howard’s different perspectives from Chapter 2 prove that human fallibility has gone from being endearing to a liability?

Why does Turkle bring up the concept of “selfobjects,” and how does this relate to sociable robots and social media?

After interviewing numerous children about their relationships with robotic toys, Turkle says that “the children’s attachments speak not simply to what the robots offer but to what children are missing” (87). How are the children’s home lives relevant to how we understand their relationships with the robots?

How do robots draw us into “necessary complicities”?

In what way does Turkle worry that definitions will be altered or simplified by robots or social media, and why does she think we will conform to these simplifications?