Authors: Sherry Turkle
Alone Together (66 page)
online
Appiah, Kwame Anthony
Apple
Artificial intelligence (AI)
limits in understanding
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT)
Artificial life
Aryananda, Lijin
Asperger’s syndrome, robots and
Attention,
children’s desire for
continual partial
Authenticity,
robotic companionship and
illusion of, in social network profiles
online life and
Autism, robots and
“Avatar of me,” Facebook profile as
Avatars
building
relationships among
Babysitters
consideration of robots as
Baird, Freedom
Beatles: Rock Band
Behaviorism, of robotic moment
Bell, Gordon
Bentham, Jeremy
Bio Bugs (toy), robots and
BIT (Baby IT)
BlackBerry
and sense of control
excluding others and
turning off
Blade Runner
(film)
(film)
Blogs
and the loss of the particular
Bohr, Niels
Boundaries, sense of personal, technology and
Breakups
face-to-face
online
Breazeal, Cynthia
Brooks, Rodney
Buber, Martin
Bullying, online
Bush, Vannevar
Caper, Robert
Caretakers, ideas about robots as
Caring
for a robot
performance of
substitutes for
“Caring machines,”
development of
Cell phones (smartphones)
and autonomy, development of
people as “pausable” and
avoiding calls and
demands of
documenting life using
sense of emergency and
identity (as collaborative) and
photographs and
private time on, desire for
safety (feeling of), and
turning off
Chat logs
“Chat people,”
Chat rooms
Chatroulette, playing
Chess, computers and
Churchill, Winston
Civilization (game)
Coach, robot as
Cog
seeking “affection” from
building
demystifying of
meeting
relationships, range of, with
talking to
teaching
Cold comforts, robots as source of
Collaborative self
Collection, recollection and
Columbine
Communication (digital)
in abbreviations (emoticons)
versus connection
choice among genres
and nostalgia for letters
volume and velocity of
and simplification of responses
from substitution to preference for
hiding as affordance of
and “discontents,”
Community
confessional sites and
seeking
Companionship, confusions in digital culture
Complicity, with robot
Computer psychotherapy, attitudes toward
Computers
as evocative object
holding power of
as mechanical and spiritual (soul in the)
subjective versus instrumental
as caring machines
and cyborg self
Connectivity
and global consciousness
and new symptoms of connection/disconnection
Confessional sites, online
apologies and
communities, contrast to
critical comments about
and discussion of abuse
reading, experience of
as symptoms
and venting
cruelty of strangers and
Connections
on backchannels during meetings
communication versus
constant
disconnection and
online
power of
stepping back from, desire to
seductions of
Connectivity
anxiety
worries of parents
culture
discontents of
global reach of
robots merged with
Conversations
beginning/ending
face-to-face
online
private
robots and
text messages as
Crocodiles, real and robotic
Csíkszentmihalyi, Mihaly
Cubism, as metaphor for simultaneous vision of robot as machine and creature
Communications culture, digital
characteristics of
cyborg sensibility and
“dumbing down,” (emotional) in
“networked” sensibility, characteristics of
Walden images in
sacred spaces and
Damasio, Antonio
Darwin, Charles
“Darwinian Buttons,”
eye contact
track motion
gesture
in encounter with Cog
De Vaucanson, Jacques
Dean, Howard
Death, simulation and
Deep Thought (computer program)
Democracy, privacy and
Dertouzos, Michael
Dick, Philip K.
Diet coach (robotic)
Digital “creatures,”
Digital life
anxiety of
ironies of
connection and disconnection and
Disney Corporation
Disneyworld
Divorce
Doi, Toshitado
Dolls (traditional)
Domo (robot)
Downtime
Dreams, symptoms and
Dreyfus, Hubert
E-mails
archive, possibility of
checking, compulsion about
comfort from
control issues and
demands of
impersonality of
and misunderstandings
popularity of
privacy and
and voice (loss of)
withdrawing from
Edsinger, Aaron
Domo and
Efficiency, technology used for
Elder care
robots and
Elderly
boredom/isolation/neglect and
My Real Babies and
robots and
ELIZA effect
ELIZA program
Emergency, cell phones and sense of
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Emoticons
Emotion
anonymity and expression of
choosing medium to match
composing
development and
experimenting with
authenticity of
instant messaging and
machine intelligence and
performance of
synthetic
technology and confusion of
“Emotion enough,”
Empathy
Erikson, Erik
E.T.: The Extraterrestrial
(film)
(film)
Ethical concerns, with new technical advances
EverQuest (game)
Evocative objects, robots as
Experimentation, and human development
Face
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