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

Wertheim has written a brilliant and provocative book which traces the evolution of the concept of space in science, religion and the imagination. Both scholarly and breathtakingly original, she traces how our conceptions of space have evolved. The digital re-enchantment of the world, as this illuminating but troubling book points out, could as easily be the path to hell as the portal to paradise...