This book is an account of the dreams of cyberspace pioneers. It describes the circumstances and scientific visions from which electronics, computer science and telecommunications emerged. These pioneers ? viewed as ?odd? or ?eccentric? by their contemporaries ? have enabled us to communicate in a ?global village? where the space that separates different nations and the time it takes to reach them are no longer a limit: the only limit is our desire to learn.

?Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic?.
? Arthur C. Clarke