Is our modern wired lifestyle damaging us and our relationships? - The Boston Globe

A new book and timely reality check from Sherry Turkle

Turkle, an MIT professor and licensed clinical psychologist, was one of the first cartographers of the new digital territory. In “Alone Together,’’ she lays out technology’s effect on the self by presenting dozens of stories drawn from 15 years of observing people, especially youths, interacting with it. She unfailingly acknowledges the benefits technology brings, but in every case then moves to a far longer catalog of harms. “Alone Together’’ reads like a cry from the heart of the researcher, parent, and trained psychologist that Turkle is.

Is our modern wired lifestyle damaging us and our relationships? - The Boston Globe