Large Array is part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory which is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.

[^2]: National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet

April 9, 2009

Life on the Screen is a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, politics, sex, and the self. Life on the Screen traces a set of boundary negotiations, telling the story of the changing impact of the computer on our psychological lives and our evolving ideas about minds, bodies, and machines.

What is emerging, Turkle says, is a new sense of identity — as decentered and multiple. She describes trends in computer design, in artificial intelligence, and in people’s experiences of virtual environments that