电脑和互联网怎样改变了我们

    This is a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are making us reevaluate* our identities* in the age of the Internet.

    We are using life on the screen to start new ways of thinking about evolution*, relationships, politics, sex, and the self.

    “Life on the Screen” tells the story of the changing impact* of the computer on our psychological* lives and our ideas about minds, bodies, and machines. What is forming, Sherry Turkle says, is a new sense of identity — as de-centered and multiple. She describes trends in computer design, in artificial intelligence, and in people’s experiences of virtual* environments that bring about a big change in our notions of self, other, machine, and world. The computer emerges as an object that brings postmodernism* down to earth.

    In nearly two decades* of field work, Turkle has observed and taken part in settings where people and computers meet; she has talked to people about their experience of using computers; and, in a certain sense, she has interrogated* the computers as well.

    “Life on the Screen” is a very interesting book which brings together cultural analysis*, psychoanalytic insight, and the newest knowledge of computers and communications.(SD-Agencies)