Computer sciences use biological concepts, and human biology is recast in terms of deciphring a code. Computers alter our ways of thinking about ourselves and other people. A more fluid sense of self allows a greater capacity for acknowledging diversity. The voyager in virtuality can return to a real world better equipped to understand its artifices. In the emerging culture of simulation psychoanalytic ideas will become newly relevant.
Life online does provide new lenses through which to examine current complexities.
In Life on the Screen, Turkle takes advantage of these new lenses, carefully analyzes the present situation, and concludes that it might be psychoanalysts who have the tools to win the struggle against the most complex social problems of our time - problems of community, identity, governance, equity, and values.