Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A psychoanalytically trained sociologist and psychologist, she is the author of The Second Self- Computers and the Human Spirit (Twentieth Anniversary Edition, MIT Press), Life on the Screen- Identity in the Age of the Internet, and Psychoanalytic Politics- Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution. She is the editor of Evocative Objects- Things We Think With, Falling for Science- Objects in Mind, and The Inner History of Devices, all three published by the MIT Press.
A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
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