10 March 2008 17:45
The Second Self - Computers and the Human Spirit, Twentieth Anniversary
Edition The MIT Press
Part I: Growing Up with Computers: The Animation of the Machine
1 Child Philosophers: Are Smart Machines Alive? 33
2 Video Games and Computer Holding Power 65
3 Child Programmers: The First Generation 91
4 Adolescence and Identity: Finding Yourself in the Machine 131
Part II: The New Computer Cultures: The Mechanization of the Mind
5 Personal Computers with Personal Meanings 155
6 Hackers: Loving the Machine for Itself 183
7 The New Philosophers of Artificial Intelligence: A Culture with Global Aspirations 219
Part III: Into a New Age
8 Thinking of Yourself as a Machine 247
9 The Human Spirit in a Computer Culture 279
Epilogue (2004): Changing the Subject and Finding the Object 287
Appendixes
A On Method: A Sociology of Sciences of Mind 303
B Children's Psychological Discourse: Methods and Data Summary 313
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