A senior partner at a Boston law firm describes a scene in his office. Young associates lay out their suite of technologies: laptops, iPods and multiple phones. And then they put their earphones on. "Big ones. Like pilots. They turn their desks into cockpits." With the young lawyers in their cockpits, the office is quiet, a quiet that does not ask to be broken.

Turkle uses the figurative meaning of the word cockpit to symbolize

A. the stress of enormous responsibility.

B.

a life surrounded by gadgets.

C. a place of isolation that no one can enter.

D. the desire to control every aspect of life.