Shirley Turkel, a sociology professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is known as the "margaret mead" in the field of network culture, went deep into two nursing homes and conducted field research on more than 200 people in order to study the interaction between humans and robots in 15. In order to study people's network interaction, we cooperated with seven middle schools and collected the first-hand research data of 450 middle school students. Through research, she found that information technology not only brings convenience to people's communication, but also weakens the relationship between people, and some people even lose the ability of face-to-face communication. Turkel believes that people send text messages, send emails, surf social networking sites and play video games. Formally, people look more relaxed and close, but in fact they are more anxious and lonely.
This book gives a brand-new explanation of the new changes and developments of the two major trends of electronic culture in the past five years, focusing on the young "electronic protozoa", whose growth is accompanied by mobile phones and intelligent electronic toys. Now we are insecure and eager for intimacy, so we turn to technology to find ways to keep ourselves in a certain interpersonal relationship and protect ourselves. The author thinks that in the Internet age, if we want to enjoy the convenience brought by information technology and get rid of the loneliness brought by information technology, we must find a good way to kill two birds with one stone: on the one hand, we must learn to be alone and experience the benefits brought by solitude; On the other hand, friends and relatives should sit together more often and talk and discuss face to face. [