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"Ernst Junger once wrote that technology is the real metaphysics of the 20th century" (Ellul, 1964, p. ix). In The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality (1993), author Michael Heim explored the metaphysical issues surrounding advanced computer-mediated communication and in another essay, Langdon Winner asked the question, Who Will we Be in Cyberspace? (1995) Frederick Turner, in Escape from Modernism: Technology and the Future of the Imagination (1984), argued that the new silicon reality is not about knowing, but about being. Each of these are noble efforts to explore the questions raised by a technology that provides a new, and sometimes revolutionary, order of communication experiences. But when we talk about the metaphysical aspects of the Web we must first consider the one modern philosopher who has single-handedly revived the ontological question of being. Martin Heidegger has addressed the nature of being in the world-a world which has frequently been defined in terms of its technological nature.
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