The Culture of Nurturing Computers
Over the weekend, I was at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria (where Creative Commons won a Golden Nica, by the way). The festival is always quite a lot of fun and is accompanied by an interesting conference. At the conference on Saturday, Sherry Turkle from MIT gave an interesting talk on the interaction and connection between computers and people in the co-construction of identity. She identified three phases regarding research on this interaction:
