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Ethics

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, by Sherry Turkle (Basic Books, 384 pp., $28.95). 
Amidst the deluge of propaganda, technophilia and idolatry that masquerades as objective assessment of digital culture, Turkle offers us galoshes and a sump pump. A researcher at MIT whose focus is the social and psychological impact of technology, she gives a clear-eyed, reflective and wise assessment of what we gain and lose in the current configurations of digital culture.

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