Since her first exposure to computers in the mid 1970's she has been fascinated with the role of computers in our lives. Computers and the Human Spirit , the result of six years of research into how the use of computers changes the way people think about themselves and their world. They contrast with modernism, the classical world-view that has dominated Western thinking since the Enlightenment.
Computer screens are the new location for our fantasies, both erotic and intellectual.
This technology meshes well with a society that laments loneliness while at the same time fearing intimacy. Interactive and reactive, the computer offers the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. In this fragmented, postmodernist world posited by Turkle, technology offers ways for individuals to explore and come to grips with their identity. The Internet is another element of the computer culture that has contributed to thinking about identity as multiplicity. Now you can search throughout Notes in the Margin for your favorite book or author, or for a particular literary term.