I am inspired by Winston Churchill’s words, who said, before McCluhan rephrased: “We make our buildings, and in turn, our buildings make and shape us.” We make our technologies, and our technologies make and shape us. The technologies I study, the technologies of communication, are identity technologies. I think of them as intimate machines. They are not only, as the computer has always been, mirrors of our mind; they are now the places where the shape and dimensions of our relationship are sculpted.

via Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: ‘Does This Technology Serve Human Purposes?”: A “Necessary Conversation” with Sherry Turkle (Part One).