Turkle and Gopnik

Connecting points for Turkle and Gopnik What changed? That James story helps supply the key. It was trains and telegrams. The railway system ended isolation, and packed the metropolis with people whose work was defined by a complicated profits of social obligations. (Gopnik 157). She confined that she would trade in her boyfriend for a sophisticated Japanese zombie if the robot would produce what she called caring environment I would be happy to produce the illusion that there is mortal satisfyingly with me A responsive robot even exhibited scripted behavior, seemed better to her than he demanding boyfriend (Turkle 269). In both passages the authors discuss how technology can be very convenient for us. Gopnik discusses how trains and telegrams make it easier for people to describe where they need to and communicate. However, trains brought over crowding to the cities and telegrams created a sense of separation because directly people did not get to actually go and see each other. Turkle also let the cat out of the bags about the convenience that comes with technology. When she was talking to a female that said that she would not mind a robot boyfriend because it would help her not to be l unrivalledly but un resembling a real one it she would not have to tend to their demands. The real question, I saw was not Why this friend? but, Why this fiction? Why as Olivia had seen so clearly, are grownups in New York so lively, and so obsessed with the language of busyness that it dominants their conversation? grabbing luncheon instead of sitting down and exchanging intimacies( Gopnik 156). Do you care that the tip over is alive? A ten stratum old girl told me that she would prefer a robot turtle because aliveness comes with aesthetic inconvenience For what the turtles do, you didnt have to have live ones. (Turkle 265-266) Both authors have made assumptions for their essays based on youths point of view . Gopnik uses his daughters imaginary friend to sh ow how things are in the busy life of a New York. Technology has made New Yorkers so busy that they rather talk to the person later instead of sitting down and having actual conversation. Turkle also uses children to explain her point. At the menagerie with children she explains how they said that they rather see a mechanical turtle because actual interaction with a turtle is not needed if the fake one can do the same thing.Both of these are examples of how technology is now seen as equal to physical bonding. Busyness is felt so intently here because we are both crowded and overloaded. We exit the apartment into a still dense nineteenth century grid of course corners and restaurants of people full of people, and come to a twentieth-century grid of faxes and emails and overwhelming incompleteness (Gopnik 158) We build a next on Facebook or Myspace and wonder to what degree our borrowers are friends But for most people it begins when one creates a profile on social- networking sit e or builds a persona or avatar for a game or virtual world. (Turkle 273). Both authors in these quotes talk about how, how technology has begun today to follow you everywhere and becomes more important to you than anything else. And how we create online networks we become encompassed and like our emails they become our lives. We become overwhelmed because we feel like we must respond to them and we must check our twitter followers.