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

Author: Margaret Wertheim

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.

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