Sherry Turkle

With the development of technology and the blessing of artificial intelligence, the boundary between "alive" or not has begun to blur. Inorganic life is taking root and we take care of it, hoping that they will accompany us and help do some of the dirty work for us, and we begin to accept our connection with them. Although this book was published in 2014, it is still far from the environment I live in, and I have only seen electronic pet eggs. I have never been in contact with other more "fresh" robots, and I even feel that they are nonsense, but the detailed experimental analysis makes me feel very real, and it cannot be imagined by the author out of thin air. The new robot will really change the relationship between humans and machines. It's just that they haven't come yet, like a typhoon in a distant place, before it comes, I'm very scared. Maybe when it comes, I'll run away too, but I'll get caught up in it.

Online life can reinvent itself, and it offers many positive things—strengthening friendships, family connections, education, business dealings, and entertainment. In virtual sentences and computer games, people are compressed into characters. In social networks, people are reduced to profiles. With mobile devices, we talk to each other on the move, with so little discretionary time, almost nothing. In fact, we communicate in a new abbreviated language, with letters representing words and emoji representing emotions. But they are not suitable for conducting a complex emotional conversation.

We were more connected to each other, but, oddly enough, lonelier as well. In this intimacy, a new type of loneliness emerges. It's like hugging each other for warmth. We are connected through the Internet as if we were hugged together, as if we were getting warm, but we didn't. And our bodies are getting cold, but we think it's because of the climate, it's too cold. Well, we've been hugging each other, but it's not warming up yet, that's a no-brainer. We hold a group on the Internet, but each is cold. The networked living environment destroys the environment for the growth of the self. It is impossible to talk deeply with others, talk with oneself deeply, and discover the self. Some people just pursue the instinct of comfort. And people without self are the loneliest, people are ever-changing, and they have not cultivated themselves through time alone, so I don't know what I am, and become a black hole of self-consciousness, no one understands me, and I don't know Where are you going. We have no self, how can anyone in the world understand us? This is the greatest loneliness.

The internet makes it easy for us to escape anxiety, boredom, and disappointment. Technology has become an antidote to our vulnerability, and accepting that vulnerability is what makes us human. Human-robot relationships are heating up; human-human relationships are weakening. We don't necessarily have to be against technology, but to shape it in a way that respects ourselves. Winston Churchill said, "We shape architecture, but architecture reshapes us." We invent technology, and technology in turn shapes us.