Rhetorical Questions: Sherry Turkle TED Talk 2012, Connected, but alone?

1. Are we going to let technology take over our lives and control every aspect of it? How do we stay connected to people in an age of technology? 
2. Audience: any and all technology users. So, yes, I am a part of the audience. 
3. Giving examples of how technology has already taken over “People text or do email during corporate board meetings. They text and shop and go on Facebook during classes, during presentations, actually during all meetings.” 
4. I think she keeps the audience interested because what she is saying truly applies to all of us. I can relate to going on my phone during class, texting at the dinner table, sitting in my room with my friends all of us on our phones. Everything that she says is so relatable, so we are interested to hear what she has to say. 
5. She mentions being a psychologist. “Over the past 15 years I’ve studied technologies of mobile communication and I’ve interviewed hundreds and hundreds of people, young and old, about their plugged-in lives.” “In 1996, reporting on my studies of the early virtual communities…” 
6. I somewhat agree with her values and beliefs. I believe that we are living in a world of “disconnection,” but I also think that technology is one of the greatest, or the greatest, thing in the world. 
7. I agree with the text, in that we need to learn how to still live in a world of people to people connections, while managing our use of technology. This has changed my thinking about how we need to work on people to people connections as a society. I agree that we need to work on it, and I think this opened my eyes to the situation more. 
8. I think that her purpose for speaking was to inform listeners that people to people connections are so important and they are being lost in the world of technology. I think my purpose for listening was to open my eyes about the world of technology and human connections.