Abstract
Editorial: Singularity--Are We There Yet?
Highlights
I n my last column, I wrote about two books—Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows and William Powers’ Hamlet’s Blackberry—relating to learning in the always-on, always connected environment of “screens.”[1] Since two additional works have come to my attention
If Carr’s and Power’s books are about how we learn in an always-connected world of screens, Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together and Elias Aboujaoude’s Virtually You are about who we are in the process of becoming in that world.[2]
Aboujaoude is a psychiatrist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he serves as director of the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinic and the Impulse Control Disorders Clinic
Summary
I n my last column, I wrote about two books—Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows and William Powers’ Hamlet’s Blackberry—relating to learning in the always-on, always connected environment of “screens.”[1] Since two additional works have come to my attention. Turkle characterizes it as mobile technology having made each of us “pausable,” i.e., that a face-to-face interaction being interrupted by an incoming call, text message, or e-mail is no longer extraordinary; rather, in the “new etiquette,” it is “close to the norm.”[10] And the rudeness, as well we know, isn’t limited to mobile communications.
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