Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkle | A Book Review
“Reclaiming Conversation” by Sherry Turkle is incredible. I haven’t read a book that is so accurate in it’s portrayal of the current social landscape. This review won’t have a lot of analysis or interpretation, it’s a really solid book.
Highly recommend you check this one out for your self. Until you do, here are my notes and thoughts from my listening.
Notes and Quotes
What are the ethics and empathy issues related to the technological layer of modern life?
True mental solitude enables us to have capacity for others
Phones are dictating social interactions
“Lives of less”
“When we allow ourselves to be vulnerable and less in control, our relationships, creativity, and productivity thrive.”
State of flow challenged but sufficient skill to feel connected toward growth
“We try to find a narrative that fits our numbers”
“A technology of talk” for therapy
“Romantic efficiency”
Real live communication is special, particularly in educational settings
“Meme track” (asides) of conversation
Panopticon - put forth your best behavior
“Tracking one’s fitness, keeping in touch with friends on social media, using a smart phone; all of these make make surveillance and social participation seem like the same thing” prescient
The 4th chair: a conversation beyond Thoreau’s nature, with the machines
Plenty of warming sentiments about the potential of friendships, society and culture as a result of improving signal in talk.
Meanwhile I’m grabbing my phone while the recording plays
Do people have the conversation skills to discuss the threats to the preservation of conversation skills?
Heavily addressed privacy as security as vehicles of descent to produce a space for individual reflection as well as democratic systems