"By carrying out nearly 2 decades of research into this subject & interviewing people about their experience of using computers, the author has produced an up-to-the-minute portrait of the new age of computers and our changing relationship with them."@en
"A book about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet."@en
"A book about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet."
"Adding a third to Emerson's keys to the nature of humanity--dreams and beasts--the author argues that computers have created dramatic psychological changes in users and in methods of learning and thinking"
"Every day milions of poeple interact on the Internet. They navigate simulated worlds, create virtual personalities, and forge online relationships that both challenge and enrich their sense of what's "real". In this groundbreaking study of the psychology of online life, S:T: explore not only what the computer does for us but what it does to us, from the way it changes children's ideas about what is alive to the way it provokes new ways of thinking about politics, community, sexual identity, and our most basic concept of self."