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Read the excerpt from “The Flight from Conversation” by Sherry Turkle.I spend the summers at a cottage on Cape Cod, and for decades I walked the same dunes that Thoreau once walked. Not too long ago, people walked with their heads up, looking at the water, the sky, the sand and at one another, talking. Now they often walk with their heads down, typing.Henry David Thoreau was an American writer and philosopher credited with helping to develop Transcendentalism—a system of thought that valued nature, experience, and intuition above religion, science, and reason. Based on the article, Turkle most likely uses this allusion to Thoreau to
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