What if cyberspace does not exist? What if it is created as we narrate it? Then the metaphors we use to describe it are neither innocent nor negligible.

Behind the metaphors lie utopian visions, economic interests, and power aspirations that sweep across the surface of potential land, Terra Virtualis.

Terra Virtualis: a book about the utopia that is being proposed to us. A book about the history and imaginary reality of Networks. A book about the way we create the Internet, in the image of ourselves and our society.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]