Michael R. Heim

Michael R. Heim is an American author and educator. Known as "the philosopher of cyberspace", Heim's three scholarly books - Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing, The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, and Virtual Realism - have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. His shorter works include:
Heim, M.. The design of virtual reality. Body & Society, 1, 65-77.,
Virtual Reality Wave 3, Chapter 13, Pages 261-277, in the book
Boundaries of Self and Reality Online,
Editor: Jayne Gackenbach, Johnathan Bown, Academic Press, 2017
Heim, Michael R.: Bridging Real and Virtual: A Spiritual Challenge. In: Journal for Religion, Film and Media, Jg. 3, Nr. 1, S. 159-181. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19455.
He taught at Missouri Western University in the 1980s, was an online lecturer for Connected Education in the mid-1980s, and taught at the Art [Center College of Design] in Pasadena, California, 1995–2002. Heim is currently a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine.