ABSTRACT
Our general topic in this series of essays is the impact of global technology upon cultural narratives, upon the tales we tell ourselves about ourselves and the tales which tell us who we are – who we are as a nation; who we are as a culture; who we are, or who we might be, as a race, class, or gender, who we might be, indeed, as individuals. What effect has the rise of the Internet and the rise of information technology more generally, had upon our sense of identity? What cultural changes are in prospect – and in progress – because of information technology, because of our ever-increasing electronic interconnectedness with one another, and because of the ways in which ever-more-pervasive electronic modes of communication, of information storage and retrieval, differ from those which dominated in the recent past?
