Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

How does the Internet affect our approach to intimacy? That's a subject of the latest book by Sherry Turkle, a psychiatrist, sociologist, and professor of science and
technology at MIT.

In Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Lessfrom Each Other (www.alonetogetherbook.com), Turkle maintains we "confuse the scattershot postings on a Facebook wall with authentic communication." Some might have said the same thing about the writing on the back of a postcard, when postcards were first created. But if you'd like to find out her reasoning about the shallowness to which the Internet has driven us, and if you'd even like to verbally joust with her in real time, here are the physical coordinates:

INFUSION/Berkeley Startup Cluster lunch
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011
Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison St., Berkeley

Noon to 12:30 Lunch catered by The Bread Workshop and served in the lobby. $15 at the door ($10 for students).

12:30 - 1:30 Turkle speaks and signs copies of her book, which will be for sale. Her talk is free and open to the public.

For lunch, RSVP to whoisylvia@aol.com a day before the event.