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Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and the Self. She is also a Lacanian-trained analyst and a licensed clinical psychologist. Alone Together is the last book in her trilogy concerning the nature and possible outcomes of our relationship with technology and the digital environments it has created. The first book in the trilogy, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), invites us to consider the computer as an evocative object, one which forever changed how we think about cognition, memory and meaning. This was a very optimistic volume that emphasized the potential for computers to assist us on new reflections of the Self. In 1995, Turkle published Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster), which optimistically examined how identity could be explored and experimented with on line. This was a time when multiplayer role-playing games, such as World of Warcraft, came into being. Individuals could now assume not only different identities but also experiment with non-human ones as well. In the twenty-seven years that this trilogy spans, we have gone from a one-to-one relationship with our computers to a multiplicitous one. The development of virtual games, virtual environments such as