Citing evidence from turkle, fredrickson, and one other reading of your choice (davidson, twenge, or foer) to substantiate your synthetic analysis, compose an original essay in response to the following question: how, and to what extent, have emerging technologies satisfied basic human emotional needs?

Turkle explores the blurred lines between “machines” and “biological life,” between the “physical” and the “psychological,” between traditional morality and the new ethics associated with “the robotic moment.” Throughout the selected passage from Alone Together, Turkle argues that humans apply a “pragmatic sensibility” (457) when trying to make sense of emerging technologies, such as social robots, that may evoke these new and uncomfortable ethical dilemmas — which extends and inevitably complicates many of the ideas we have already discussed throughout the semester.
Citing evidence from Turkle, Fredrickson, and one other reading of your choice (Davidson, Twenge, or Foer) to substantiate your synthetic analysis, compose an original essay in response to the following question: How, and to what extent, have emerging technologies satisfied basic human emotional needs?