Michael Heim
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and educator. Known as "the philosopher of cyberspace", Heim's three scholarly books - Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing (Yale University Press, 1986), The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality (Oxford University Press, 1993), and Virtual Realism (Oxford University Press, 1998) - have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. He taught at Missouri Western University in the 1980s, was an online lecturer for Connected Education
Connected Education
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in the mid-1980s, and taught at the Art Center College of Design
Art Center College of Design
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in Pasadena, California
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, 1995-2002. Heim is currently a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
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