Margaret Wertheim

The pearly gates of cyberspace : a history of space from Dante to the Internet

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309–322) and index;;Tracing the combined story of physical and spiritual space from the Middle Ages to the present, Wertheim reveals the appeal of cyberspace and its ultimate failure to satisfy one's spiritual needs. The author argues that cyberspace has in recent years become a repository for immense spiritual yearning. Seeking to understand this phenomenon, she traces the evolution of our conception of space from the medieval to the modern viewpoint and explores how our conception of our spatial scheme has radically altered over the years. She then brings science and theology together, showing that the spiritualizing of cyberspace fits into a long history of imagined spaces and may be seen as an attempt to realize a technological version of the Christian space of heaven Tracing the combined story of physical and spiritual space from the Middle Ages to the present, Wertheim reveals the appeal of cyberspace and its ultimate failure to satisfy one's spiritual needs. The author argues that cyberspace has in recent years become a repository for immense spiritual yearning. Seeking to understand this phenomenon, she traces the evolution of our conception of space from the medieval to the modern viewpoint and explores how our conception of our spatial scheme has radically altered over the years. She then brings science and theology together, showing that the spiritualizing of cyberspace fits into a long history of imagined spaces and may be seen as an attempt to realize a technological version of the Christian space of heaven
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