Can You Hear Me Now? By Sherry Turkle Summary
Trang Nguyen (Vanessa)
Professor Sakovich
English 100
December 12th, 2012
A Strong Argument: “Can You Hear Me Now?”
Nowadays, technology is an important part of people’s lives. It creates a great impact on our work, our education, and our daily life. Thus, in the article “Can You Hear Me Now?” written by Sherry Turkle and published in Forbes magazine in 2007, the author writes about how technology affects people today. According to this article, Turkle is saying how technology harms to modern life. She says that by using and depending too much on communication devices, people lose their real connection to others and important time for themselves. As a result, technology is a cause which makes people become more attached to their cell …show more content…
As an illustration, Turkle states “Might such robotic arrangements even benefit the elderly and their children in the short run in a feel-good sense but be bad for us in our lives as moral being?” (280). The author claims that because of many good benefits of technology, people become more addicted to modern machines and the virtual world than their real life. And because of attaching to technology, people seem to lose their respect for human beings. I completely agree with Turkle on this argument about the issue that being strongly dependent on technology could affect or change our morality negatively. Specifically, I have the example of my neighbor’s son. He is just twelve years old, and he is addicted to violent games on the internet. Thus, he repeats aggression and violent action from those games, and he tends to use violence in real life to solve his problems. Once in the morning, I saw him throw his breakfast and his backpack towards his parents as they walked him to the school bus. Because he just wanted to stay home and play games all day instead of going to school. He pretended to be the characters in violent games, so he was very aggressive in solving his problems in reality. I feel sorry for his parents and him because the affect of playing computer games makes him a bad child, losing the respect for his parents. Moreover, I have another example of this issue that demonstrates …show more content…
This article has many good examples and observations to support Turkle’s opinion. I absolutely agree with Turkle that strong attachment to modern technology such as cell phones, laptops, or the internet makes people seem to lose their morality, forget to focus on things that matter, and become estranged from their real relationships with other people. Turkle succeeds in making people believe in her opinion by pointing out a problem about the harmfulness of being deeply dependent on technology in our lives. Some people today seem to go crazy if they can not connect with their communication devices for just one day. From this article, I learned a good lesson about how to control myself and stop being addicted to technology. Turkle convinces me to spend less time texting on my phone and more time focusing on things that matter to
Professor Sakovich
English 100
December 12th, 2012
A Strong Argument: “Can You Hear Me Now?”
Nowadays, technology is an important part of people’s lives. It creates a great impact on our work, our education, and our daily life. Thus, in the article “Can You Hear Me Now?” written by Sherry Turkle and published in Forbes magazine in 2007, the author writes about how technology affects people today. According to this article, Turkle is saying how technology harms to modern life. She says that by using and depending too much on communication devices, people lose their real connection to others and important time for themselves. As a result, technology is a cause which makes people become more attached to their cell …show more content…
As an illustration, Turkle states “Might such robotic arrangements even benefit the elderly and their children in the short run in a feel-good sense but be bad for us in our lives as moral being?” (280). The author claims that because of many good benefits of technology, people become more addicted to modern machines and the virtual world than their real life. And because of attaching to technology, people seem to lose their respect for human beings. I completely agree with Turkle on this argument about the issue that being strongly dependent on technology could affect or change our morality negatively. Specifically, I have the example of my neighbor’s son. He is just twelve years old, and he is addicted to violent games on the internet. Thus, he repeats aggression and violent action from those games, and he tends to use violence in real life to solve his problems. Once in the morning, I saw him throw his breakfast and his backpack towards his parents as they walked him to the school bus. Because he just wanted to stay home and play games all day instead of going to school. He pretended to be the characters in violent games, so he was very aggressive in solving his problems in reality. I feel sorry for his parents and him because the affect of playing computer games makes him a bad child, losing the respect for his parents. Moreover, I have another example of this issue that demonstrates …show more content…
This article has many good examples and observations to support Turkle’s opinion. I absolutely agree with Turkle that strong attachment to modern technology such as cell phones, laptops, or the internet makes people seem to lose their morality, forget to focus on things that matter, and become estranged from their real relationships with other people. Turkle succeeds in making people believe in her opinion by pointing out a problem about the harmfulness of being deeply dependent on technology in our lives. Some people today seem to go crazy if they can not connect with their communication devices for just one day. From this article, I learned a good lesson about how to control myself and stop being addicted to technology. Turkle convinces me to spend less time texting on my phone and more time focusing on things that matter to