Accounts of the ethical challenges raised by new technologies seem to come at us weekly if not daily. It's becoming harder and harder to believe that technologies are merely neutral artifacts of no political consequence. But what to do with this realization? How can we learn to think more deeply about the moral and political significance of our tools and devices? The reflections gathered in this collection attempt to clear the ground for the sort of thinking we must undertake in order to understand the place of emerging technologies in our personal lives and in our society. They draw on a variety of sources—philosophical, sociological, historical, and literary—in order to elucidate the nature of our situation and the character of the moral and political life in the digital age.