Derrick de Kerckhove is a pioneer and futurist in digital technology and virtual reality whose theory of connected intelligence has gained worldwide notoriety in the search for a new electronic alphabet.  He pushes at the frontier of cyberspace in terms of the physiology and psychology of human cognition to ask whether there is a mental space that can be multiplied mind-by-mind distinct from physical space and mediated by virtual space.

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