Modest Reviewer Goes on Virtual Voyage Some Recent Literature of Cyberspace

摘要

What is this thing called cyberspace? According to some, we are witnessing the emergence of the global mind: a revolutionary change n human prac- tice of no less import than the invention of printing, or, before it, of lan- guage. Most of the contributors to the five books under review her adopt this position-though, lie a box of fireworks into which lighted match has been thrown, they go off dazzlingly, dizzyingly, and often dementedly in different directions from this central starting point.