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Sherry Turkle, an American Psychologist, raises concerns regarding the pervasiveness of electronic communication devices in our lives. She shows how we actually prefer being connected to real conversation, the first taking precedence over the second because it takes less time and to let us better control what we put forward...As if we are trying to hide ourselves - or to escape the fact - that humands are often irrational and unpredictable...

I share therefore I am?

We are becoming more and more connected and at the same time more and more alone. With machines as our companions, we think we can escape our loneliness, but we are really only creating false relationships that are only surface deep, with no real visual and emotional connection. We are becoming foreign to the idea of itimacy.

Sherry Turkle hopes to restore another relationship to one's self, to others, to the community banning the use of technology, but instead putting into effect a deep and profound sense of communication. We are restoring solidarity and teaching our children that we don't need dependant relationships. We need to restore a sense of conversation in our daily lives, with family and at work and learn to listen to each other.

Without throwing away our cell phones just yet, we can't forget that our bodies remind us of the imortance of physical presence and direct human contact as well as with family, in society and politics.