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alone togetherWhy We Expect
More fram Technologyand
Less fram Each Other
Sherry Turkle
BASIC BOOKSA MEMBER OF THE PERSEUS BOOKS GROUP
New York
CONTENTS
Author's Note: Turning Points ix
Introduction: Alone Together 1
PART ONE----------------~-- ------------------------ -- -----------~---------~--------
THE ROBOTIC MOMENT: IN SOLITUDE, NEW INTIMACIES
1. Nearest Neighbors 23
2. Alive Enough 35
3. True Companions 53
4. Enchantment 67
5. Complicities 83
6. Loves Labor Lost 103
7. Communion 127
PART TWO
NETWORKED: IN INTIMACY, NEW SOLITUDES
8. Always On 151
9. Growing Up Tethered 171
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viii Contents
10. No Need to Call 187
11. Reduction and Betrayal 211
12. True Confessions 229
13. Anxiety 241
14. The Nostalgia of the Young 265
Conclusion: Necessary Conversations 279
Epilogue: The Letter 297
Notes, 307
Index, 349
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