"people use computers to extend their physical presence via real-time video links and shared virtual conference rooms."   "Virtual communities... allow people to generate experiences, relationships, identities, and living spaces that arise only through interaction with technology."   "It's where I live," Mike says. "More than I do in my dingy dorm room. There's no place like home."   "As human beings become increasingly intertwined with the technology and with each other via the technology, old distinctions between what is specifically human and specifically technological have become more complex."   "Are we lving life on the screen or life in the screen?"   "... to  what extent we ourselves have become cyborgs, transgressive mixtures of biology, technology, and code."   "Along with the movement from a culture of calculation toward a culture of simulation have come changes in what computers do for us and what they do to us-- to our relationships and our ways of thinking about ourselves."   "As we contemplate reengineering the genome, we are also reengineering our view of ourselves as programmed beings."   "... reflect the extent to which we assume ourselves to be like machines whose inner workings we can understand." "The rethinking of human and machine identity is not taking place just among philosophers but 'on the ground'... in everyday life"   "Computers don't just do things for us, they do things to us, including to our ways of thinking about ourselves and other people."   "People explixitly turn to computers for experiences that they hope will change their ways of thinking or will affect their social and emotional lives."   "... it is computer screens where we project ourselves into our own dramas, dramas in which we are producer, director, and star. Some of these dramas are private, but increasingly we are able to draw on other people. Computer screens are the new location for our fantasies, both erotic and intellectual. We are using life on computer screens to become comfortable with new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, sexuality, politics, and identity..."