Abstract
When Sherry Turkle first posed this question in 1995, she was not exploring this concern through the lens of the 21st century, nor was she bearing in mind contemporary television programs, but she was beginning an important scholarly conversation. Over the past two decades, the line of inquiry that she introduced about the anxiety and promise of multiplicity has taken different forms as technology and culture have continued to change and evolve. The growing sense that we are all becoming multiple and the fact that we remain ambivalent about it bear scrutiny because this reflects our fragmented, postmodern state of identity.