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Slade, Giles.
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Technology -- Psychological aspects.
Household electronics -- Social aspects.
Human-machine systems.
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The big disconnect :...
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The big disconnect : the story of technology and loneliness / Giles Slade.
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Slade, Giles.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2012.
Subjects
Technology -- Psychological aspects.
Household electronics -- Social aspects.
Human-machine systems.
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9781616145958 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
1616145951 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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306 p. ; 23 cm.
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Introduction: Immortality and free will -- Breadcrumbs : Incunabula ; Self-serve ; Selling robots ; Closed cars ; Radio's "free" content ; Screens ; Stars -- Wired for sound : Music is technology ; Distance grooming ; Palliative music ; Accessibility in American music ; Factory whistle, factory noise ; Stars, music, and personality ; Canned music ; Solitary (acousmatic) listening -- Trusting machines : Trust in traditional societies ; Modern trust ; Modern alternatives to trust: professionalization ; Modern alternatives to trust: standardization ; Modern alternatives to trust: reliable machines ; National crisis of trust ; The arts and crafts of machines ; World without Oxytocin -- Conclusion: Machines as friends..
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Tablets, smart phones, and social networks all promise better opportunities to connect and stay connected. Yet what they really do is replace face-to-face interactions and disguise our growing inability to trust others. According to recent surveys, sixty million Americans, 20 percent of the population, feel sufficiently isolated to report that loneliness is a major source of unhappiness. In a sweeping overview that ranges from the late nineteenth century to the present, the author reveals how consumer technologies changed from analgesic devices that ameliorated the loneliness of a newly urban generation in the Gilded Age to prosthetic machines that act as substitutes for companionship in contemporary America. In a final investigative section, he describes ways in which some people are bucking the trend by consciously including interpersonal strategies that build empathy, community, and mutual acceptance. This interdisciplinary synthesis provides many insights into our increasingly artificial relationships and a vision of how we can rediscover genuine community and human empathy.
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