Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Sherry Turkle’s ‘Reclaiming Conversation’

Here is a review of Turkle's book by Jonathan Frazen, the author, most recently, of “The Kraus Project” and the novel “Purity."  I liked it for its nuanced point of view, noting that not everyone has the luxury of getting off their phones.  For example, he says,
the family that is doing well enough to buy and read her new book may learn to limit its exposure to technology and do even better. But what of the great mass of people too anxious or lonely to resist the lure of tech, too poor or overworked to escape the vicious circles?