In the video “Connected, but Alone“, Sherry Turkle talks about how all these devices that we use today are changing us in the way we communicate and are with each other. There were two points in the video in where it really made me think about what she was saying, the first which was where she mentions how a boy tells her how he wants to learn how to have an actual conversation face to face and not by text. That was one thing I was able to relate with as I seem to have conversations with people easier through text than by phone or face to face. It always was something I wondered why it was so much more difficult than texting, but afterwards now realized it was mainly because of how I’m used to communicating. The second point was where she mentions a more advanced Siri that would be able to listen to us, now at first it seems like a great idea, but in reality I don’t see it having the same effect on people as that of having some other person listening to you. Siri is an artificial intelligence whereas a human is an actual person who would be able to share similar feelings or have a better connection with what one is saying. Basically what I learned from this Ted Talk is that soon we won’t have the need for face to face conversations as our electronic devices are becoming so advanced that they will be able to do everything from it.