This is a short little article by Janet Murray on the emerging feild of computer based media. She gives mostly just background for the fast paced state of innovation and invention which we're living in right now.

Lev Manovich on the budding world of digital media. From "The New Media Reader"

Turkle talks to children, college students, engineers, AI scientists, hackers, and personal computer owners--people confronting machines that seem to think and at the same time suggest a new way for us to think--about human thought, emotion, memory, and understanding. Her interviews reveal that we experience computers as being on the border between inanimate and animate, as both an extension of the self and part of the external world.