Abstract

The tone of its title notwithstanding, this book is not a self-help tract hawking glib recipes for success in the Cyber Age, nor even a contribution specifically to the philosophy of technology. Although Langan hopes for a broadly literate readership, his task is to understand “the Being of the epoch in which we are trying to survive” as requisite to deciding how best we should live. The problem of surviving the age of virtual reality thus rejoins the perennial concerns of philosophy in a renewed gigantomachia over Being.