This book delineates the formidable changes and challenges created by a panoply of technologies which have enmeshed us in an ever-expanding circle of relationships. We are connected not only through family, friendships, and work associations but also by phone, FAX, computer, and other technologies to an ever-expanding web of professional colleagues and acquaintances. Gergen helps us understand how this situation has created dilemmas of identity and reshaped the soulscape of America.