Keen On… MIT Professor Says Robotic Moment Has Arrived, And We Are Toast (TCTV)
“We are toast,” Turkle told me when she came into the TechCrunch San Francisco studio earlier this month.
It’s no laughing matter. Alone Together is the result of hundreds of interviews that Turkle has carried out over the last 15 years with a broad cross section of children, adults and old people. What Turkle finds is that, out of a sense of disappointment with each other, we’ve turned to robots as a substitute for human interaction. What Turkle meticulously charts in Alone Together are robots used by lonely, isolated human beings as lovers, best friends and caregivers.
So has the robotic moment really arrived? When was the last time you fondled your Roxxxy?
Tomorrow, we’ll have more of the interview including Turkle’s dark warning about social media.
The robotic movement
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We are toast
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Can we love robots?
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