Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the MIT Press Edition (2004) -- Introduction (1984): The Evocative Object -- Part I Growing Up with Computers: The Animation of the Machine -- 1 Child Philosophers: Are Smart Machines Alive? -- 2 Video Games and Computer Holding Power -- 3 Child Programmers: The First Generation -- 4 Adolescence and Identity: Finding Yourself in the Machine -- Part II The New Computer Cultures: The Mechanization of the Mind -- 5 Personal Computers with Personal Meanings -- 6 Hackers: Loving the Machine for Itself -- 7 The New Philosophers of Artificial Intelligence: A Culture with Global Aspirations -- Part III Into a New Age -- 8 Thinking of Yourself as a Machine -- 9 The Human Spirit in a Computer Culture -- Epilogue (2004): Changing the Subject and Finding the Object -- Appendixes -- A On Method: A Sociology of Sciences of Mind -- B Children's Psychological Discourse: Methods and Data Summary -- Notes -- Index.