The news that the heir of the Rockefeller fortune was marrying the daughter of a prominent Rhode Island senator made headlines in the fall of 1901. But Abby Aldrich, the bride, had more than a ...

Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Stud- ies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the author of the New York ...