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In the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, MITs, short for Micro Instrumentation and Telementry System, a small computer company in Albequerque, New Mexico, announced the Altair, a computer small enough to sit on a desktop, powerful enough to support high level language programming, and that you could build for only $429.

À l'heure où les appareils connectés ont totalement envahi notre quotidien et où une toute nouvelle génération d'enfants a grandi entourée de tous ces objets numériques, Sherry Turkle se questionne sur l'impact de cette hyper-connexion sur notre vie privée, mais aussi sur notre gestion des émotions et nos relations interpersonnelles. Malgré un constat qui pourrait paraître sans appel, l'autrice apporte une solution simple en apparence mais aux effets indéniablement multiples : se réapproprier la conversation. Ainsi on pourra reprendre notre place dans le débat public, redevenant acteur à part entière de nos démocraties.

Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., (1.) Social psychologist SHERRY TURKLE is a professor at MIT who's spent decades studying the impact of digital technology on our culture, and is the author of a number of acclaimed books on the effect of digital technology on human behavior. Her new book The Empathy Diaries, is a memoir about growing up in Brooklyn in a working class Jewish family, becoming a standout student and earning her way to Harvard, learning new social skills and becoming a brilliant scholar, and entering a world at MIT where her gender and her original thinking created friction with the mostly male, tech-oriented faculty. TURKLE's other books include The Second Self, Life on the Screen, Alone Together, and Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in the Digital Age. (INTERVIEW BY DAVE DAVIES) (2.) Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester, a collection of short stories which she describes as a spooky spin on the question of whether we control technology, or technology controls us.