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In her TEDTalk, "Connected, but alone?", psychologist Sherry Turkle speaks about how technology is affecting our lives, possibly for the negative. She believes that the advancement of technology is just making us more isolated even as we try to connect. That technology gives us "a new way of being alone together". She says that one reason that we turn to technology is control. Through technology we can easily rewrite, edit or delete what we say before we communicate. In real life conversation, we can’t filter out information that doesn't interest us. This leads to a lack of true communication and connection. She describes what she calls "The Goldilocks Effect", being able to achieve complete perfection; not too much, not too little, just right. Turkle also speaks about how we are turning to technology for comfort, replacing humans with machines. She also argues that have lost our ability to be comfortable being alone, and that being comfortable in solitude is incredibly important to cultivating self awareness.