When a maximum drink size snaps us out of the illusion of demanding portions in excess of our appetites, we may glance askance at our plates.
A number of big operators are accused of arranging trades among themselves to create an illusion of strong demand.
The firm led a $500,000 seed round in the vegan food company Hampton Creek, which is now under investigation by the SEC following a story in Bloomberg that employees were ordered to buy vast amounts of its eggless Just Mayo product to create the illusion of soaring demand.
WE expect more from technology and less from one another and seem increasingly drawn to technologies that provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of relationship.
Such sentimental whining undermines the larger and important points she wants to make in this volume — the notion that technology offers the illusion of companionship without the demands of intimacy and communication without emotional risk, while actually making people feel lonelier and more overwhelmed.
Eventually, the most interesting thing about the movie is a mirage: the optical illusion of a prickly Tony Sheen-Blair demanding but failing to get answers from a disgraced US president about the invasion of Cambodia, a corrupt foreign policy, the wholesale slaughter of civilians.
We're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.
"From social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship," she said.
More recently in Alone Together, Massachusetts Institute of Technology clinical psychologist Sherry Turkle, who studies the impact of technology on social relations, examined how hyperconnected-ness has created relationships where we have the "illusion of companionship" without the "demands of friendship".
The more connected we are to our devices, the more we engage in superficial interactions that create the "illusion of companionship" without the "demands of friendship," as Turkle puts it.
