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Article: Homo mobilis.(Homo mobilis)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 12, 2008
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As language goes, so does thought
SHERRY TURKLE, the psychologist at MIT who studies the nexus between people and gadgets, believes that the tools of mobility are leading to "the emergence of a new type of person". In the distant, landline-dominated past, she says, people thought: "I have a feeling so I want to make a call." Young people today, including Ms Turkle's teenage daughter, seem to be thinking instead: "I want to have a feeling, so I need to make a call." What she means is that there is something inorganic, derivative and inauthentic about a lot of mobile communication. As a species, Ms Turkle thinks, we run the risk of letting the permanent wireless social ...
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