I-low have the new technologies changed the ways we chink about life and being alive' Lf you read Turkle carefully, you can see chat no single definition of life has become the dominant one, but in...

I-low have the new technologies changed the ways we chink about life and being alive' Lf you read Turkle carefully, you can see chat no single definition of life has become the dominant one, but in her account you can identify a range of responses. Among these responses what seem to be the most important differences and simila1ities? Have words like alive and livillg become meaningless? When we treat a Tamagotchi as aliv�nd when we moum its "death"--are we giving life a new meaning or have we lost sight of reality?