This half of the reading was more challenging as Turkle begins to assess the psycho-social aspects of the generational effects of technology on youth (a mouthful).
There are moments in the book where Turkle has interviewed youth around their interactions with technology. It's the interviews that cue us, as the reader, in to what happens next in the blurring between the actual and the virtual: an organic, inborn understanding of the virtual. I think Turkle coined it by noting:
"The idea of talking to technology begins to seem more natural when the computer presents itself less like a traditional machine and more like a demi-person...The reconfiguration of machines as psychological objects and people as living machines..."
It's this deeply psychological inquiry, born in the minds of younger and younger generations, that move our youth toward less of a blurring and more of an symbiotic blending of the actual and the virtual.
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