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Authors: Sherry Turkle

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Thoreau, Henry David

Toddlers, mechanical (Kismet and Cog)

Transference, the

Trust

robotic

Turing, Alan

Turing test, the

Turner, Victor

Turtles, live/robot

Twain, Mark

Tweets

Twitter

Ultima 2 (game)

Upside-down test (Freedom Baird)

Vacations, offline

Vadrigar

Venting

Virginia Tech

Virtual self and virtual places

Voice

Voicemail

Walden
(Thoreau)

Walden 2.0:

WALL-E
(film)

Wandukan, development of

Weak ties

Wearable Computing Group (MIT)

Weiner, Norbert: cybernetics and

Weizenbaum, Joseph

Wi-Fi

Willard, Rebecca Ellen Turkle

Wired

World of Warcraft (game)

YouTube

Zhu Zhu pet hamsters

Zone, The

In this book I use the terms
the Net
,
the network
, and
connectivity
to refer to our new world of online connections—from the experience of surfing the Web, to e-mail, texting, gaming, and social networking. And I use the term
cell phone
to describe a range of connectivity devices such as BlackBerries and iPhones that do a lot more than make “calls.” They provide access to instant messaging, texting, e-mail, and the Web.

This name and the names of others I observed and interviewed for this book are pseudonyms. To protect the anonymity of my subjects, I also change identifying details such as location and profession. When I cite the opinions of scientists or public figures, I use their words with permission. And, of course, I cite material on the public record.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Turkle, Sherry.

Alone together : why we expect more from technology and less from each other / Sherry Turkle.

p. cm.

eISBN : 978-0-465-02234-2

1. Information technology—Social aspects. 2. Interpersonal relations. 3. Human-computer interaction. I. Title.

HM851.T86 2010

303.48’33—dc22

2010030614