TED Talk

In the TED Talk presentation, Connected, but Alone?, Sherry Turkle highlights the importance of connecting with other people.  Turkle agrees that today people relay on technology, technology is slowly starting to take over our communication, connections, and relationships with others. I agree with the statement of her saying how “we send texts to feel like we’re not alone,” for me this really hits me as a person. I am not much of a person who is very social, and being so far away from home I try to stay in touch with my friends back home but the only way is with technology. Knowing that we actually do this to make ourselves feel better and not feel alone,  but in the end you realize you are still alone in the moment. Tuckles argument redounds with me because she is specking the truth about how society is now and how sad it is that we are this way. At the end of the talk Tuckles she states that she wants people to not stop using technology, but learn to connect and rebuild relationships with people by connecting with them not using technology.

 

In the TED Talk presentation, What Makes a Good Life? Lessons From the Longest Study on Happiness , Robert Waldinger  talks about his observations and conclusions on having a happy life. He has been running a study on this conclusion for 75 years. With the data he has collect it suggest that the people who have health relationships with others live a happier long life. The key in life to have a happy one is to form and develop relationships that you can maintain while also making you happy. I agree with his statement “Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.” He’s study shows that the relationships you hold in your life do impact your life in many ways, and good ones result in a happier longer life.

2 thoughts on “TED Talk”

  1. For the Ted Talk summaries I feel I did not do much of a summary, but more of a response. For ‘Connected, but Alone?’ By Sherry Turkle I wrote how I toke the position of agreeing with her. I agree that the way technology is shaping our society now and taking over because in my experience I can see how technology has changed me since I have been introduced to it. Not only is technology changing people but people use it to feel more connected to other people. Tuckle states “we send texts to feel like we’re not alone.” I agree with this statement because I know I have done this, meaning that there are more people out there that do it as well. We as people use technology to connect and stay connected but online rather then in person.

    1. I agree with your position that we use technology to connect with one another, but how do you feel about Turkle’s opinion that it is going down a path towards isolation? Do you think that is not accurate, and that technology is only beneficial to us and our relationships? I do believe that technology has the capabilities to connect us to people everywhere, but Turkle argues differently. In Turkle’s view “Human relationships are rich and they’re messy and they’re demanding. And we clean them up with technology. And when we do, one of the things that can happen is that we sacrifice conversation for mere connection. We short-change ourselves. And over time, we seem to forget this, or we seem to stop caring” (7:06). Her point is that technology negatively impacts our relationships in a way that we forego conversation all together. How do you view this opinion?

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