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== Sherry Turkle > Personal Computers With Personal Meanings ==


First published in 1984, this primer on the psychology of personal computers seems terribly outdated, and not very deep in its attempts to explain how computer culture has stayed more or less the same since the 1970's. It scratches the surface in its illustration of a 'transparent' tool that gives users 'total' control over the machine, and allows workers to free themselves from the alienation of fragmented workflows.

On the same subject of tools and how they affect our minds, and our culture (but more interesting to read, IMO) : [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/ 'Is google making us Stupid?' By Jonathan Carr in The Atlantic]
(Comments on that page are worth a read, too)