"The self is multiple, fluid, and constituted in interaction with machine connections"   "So not only are MUDs places where the self is a multiple and constructed bt language, they are places where people and machines are in a new relation to each other, indeed can be mistaken for each other."   "[Postmodern] ideas are difficult to define simply, but they are characterized by such terms as 'decentered', 'fluid', 'nonlinear', and 'opaque'." "Through experiences with computers, people come to a certain understanding of postmodernism and to recognize its ability to usefully capture certain aspects of their own experience, both online and off."   "Computers embody postmodern theory and bring it down to earth."