Introduction

In a society reliant on technology, how does this affect our personal lives and face-to-face interactions? This is the question author Sherry Turkle focuses on in her book “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other.” Through performing various experiments and observations, she determines that although we are all very much reliant on some form of technology, whether we like to admit it or not, our dependence tends to revolve around communication.