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Answer the following questions:

1. Sherry Turkle argues that mobile devices are decreasing people's ability to feel empathy. What evidence does Turkle provide to substantiate her claim that mobile devices are causing an empathy crisis? Using your own words identify and explain at least two pieces of evidence.
2. What does Turkle see as the cure to the empathy problem? Explain why she believes the problem can be cured this way.
3. Using your own words, explain the Rule of Three.
4. Using your own words, explain the Rule of Seven.
5. According to Turkle, what is the relationship between conversation and solitude?
6. Explain the study that Turkle mentions in the Google talk and in The Atlantic article about the impact a phone on a table has between two people conversing in a face-to-face conversation.
7. What does Turkle mean when she says, "Technology makes us forget what we know about life"?
8. Identify and briefly explain the seven "first steps" Turkle recommends people take to mitigate the impact mobile devices are having in our interpersonal relationships.
9. Of the seven first steps, choose two that you believe would be beneficial for you to take. Explain why you have chosen these two steps.
10. In the Atlantic article, Turkle lists the three promises that mobile devices make. What are they?
11. In the Atlantic article, the interviewer and Turkle discuss the possible connection between radical individualism and the way Americans use their mobile devices. Using your own words, explain that connection.
12. Identify one important takeaway from the reading or the talk that resonates for you. Explain why this idea, finding, or concept seems important to you and how it will impact your interpersonal relationships or your intrapersonal communication. Conversely, you may choose an idea Turkle discusses that you disagree with. Preferably using your mobile device experience, explain why you disagree.