Technology, the architect of our intimacies.
Source One: Dauda, Y. (2009). Managing technology innovation: The human resource management perspective. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Technology in the world today has contributed to promote organisational competitiveness and national development. But most developing countries have not substantially benefited from science and technology, hence their underdevelopment and poverty. They could not harness and manage their scientific and technological innovations and use their human and material resources to meet basic needs of their people, reduce socio-economic inequalities, create employment opportunities and improve national security. The achievement of these is considered in this book to be dependent on provisions of conducive environments for effective human resource management for scientific and technological innovations. Human resource management concepts and practices were used to evolve frameworks and processes for the generation, acquisition, adoption, and transfer of technology, depending on the objectives of different countries and organisations.
Source Two: Turkle, S. (2011). Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other.
A wake-up call from a cyber-expert: our use of technology is fueling disturbing levels of isolation, leaving us incapable of distinguishing between true human connection and digital communication
Source Three: Turkle, S. (1984). The second self: Computers and the human spirit. New York: Simon and Schuster.
In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to explore how the computer affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship with the world.
Source Four: Turkle, S. (2012, February). Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone? | TED Talk | TED.com[Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together
As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication — and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have.