The Embodied Self in a Digital Age. Possibilities, Risks, and Prospects for a Pluralistic (democratic/liberal) Future?

In the following, I seek to address three major but interrelated questions. First, how do emerging information technologies interact with our sense of self/selves, i.e., who we (believe we) are as human beings? Second, what sort of Good Life – including what sort of polity/polities – might be possible for these (changing) selves, both individually and collectively? Third, what sorts of choices and decisions will we need to make regarding the sort of self/selves we will become through our interactions with new media, in order to realize the better possible futures available to these sorts of selves?