A History of Space: The Pearly Gates from Dante of Cyberspace to the Internet

But as science commentator Margaret Wertheim argues in this marvelously provocative (Kirkus Reviews) book, cyberspace has in recent years become a repository for immense spiritual yearning. Wertheim explores the mapping of spiritual desire onto digitized space and suggests that the modem today has become a metaphysical escape-hatch from a materialism that many people find increasingly dissatisfying. Cyberspace opens up a collective space beyond the laws of physics-a space where mind rather than matter reigns. This strange refuge returns us to an almost medieval dualism between a physical space of body and an immaterial space of mind and psyche.

Author: Margaret Wertheim
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/01/2000
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.55w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780393320534

About the Author
Wertheim, Margaret: - Margaret Wertheim is a science journalist and commentator and author of the book Pythagoras' Trousers.