Falling for Science: Objects in Mind

Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science andTechnology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Apsychoanalytically trained sociologist and psychologist, she is the author of The SecondSelf: Computers and the Human Spirit (Twentieth Anniversary Edition, MIT Press),Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, andPsychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution. She is theeditor of Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, Falling for Science: Objects inMind, and The Inner History of Devices, all three published by the MITPress.