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Sherry Turkle

BASIC BOOKSA MEMBER OF THE PERSEUS BOOKS GROUP

New York

CONTENTS

Author's Note: Turning Points ix

Introduction: Alone Together 1

PART ONE----------------~-- ------------------------ -- -----------~---------~--------

THE ROBOTIC MOMENT: IN SOLITUDE, NEW INTIMACIES

1. Nearest Neighbors 23

2. Alive Enough 35

3. True Companions 53

4. Enchantment 67

5. Complicities 83

6. Loves Labor Lost 103

7. Communion 127

PART TWO

NETWORKED: IN INTIMACY, NEW SOLITUDES

8. Always On 151

9. Growing Up Tethered 171

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10. No Need to Call 187

11. Reduction and Betrayal 211

12. True Confessions 229

13. Anxiety 241

14. The Nostalgia of the Young 265

Conclusion: Necessary Conversations 279

Epilogue: The Letter 297

Notes, 307

Index, 349