The first edition of Electric Language was published in 1987. The 1999 second edition of Electric Language includes a Foreword by the Yale computer scientist, David Gelernter, who was a victim of the Unabomber. The 1999 edition also has an Introduction by the author that updates the theory for the Web. See the back cover of Electric Language. Once we discover the new reality layer, we need look at the social and aesthetic impact of virtuality.
Society swings back and forth between enthusiasm and rejection.
Virtual Realism describes a middle path of existential balance. The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality was published by Oxford University Press in 1993, and two of its chapters were put online by a professor for a 1996 course taught at Cornell University with permission of the publisher. Links below take you to those chapters. The colorful book jacket of MVR shows me in the Nintendo PowerGlove, under the dazzling lights of French photo-journalist Catherine Leroy. Translating this book came from my studies of Heidegger's philosophy of technology during a Fulbright Fellowship to Freiburg, Germany.