Fascinating talk from MIT-based tech author and thinker Sherry Turkle at a TED conference in February 2012.
In the 20-minute presentation, Turkle discusses how the rise of technology and social media is affecting human ability to interact in a live environment.
Includes this thought-provoking line:
“The feeling that ‘no one is listening to me’ make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.”
For those of us that live so much of our lives on the interweb, with our many “friends” in social networks, it is worth sitting back for a moment and wonder how technology, social media et al impacts on our relationships in both the real and virtual worlds.
This is fantastic - magician and illusionist Marco Tempest at a TED event in Scotland in 2011, using mobile apps to take your average magic show in a completely new direction.
