Annotating Sherry Turkle’s “Can You Hear

me now?”
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Lyndzie, Joy, Carlie, Mason

Sherry Turkle feels strongly about how our engagement in the natural world has progressively
become more synthetic. She tells us a story about a family trip that impacted her because of her
disbelief that her daughter would prefer a robotic animal to a real one on the premise that a machine
would be able to perform better in the required situation. She relates this back to her main point of the
article “Can You Hear Me Now” by explaining that in the modern world things aren’t as simple as
synthetic is wrong and real is right as many of the points brought up by her daughter favor compassion
for the turtles in captivity.