Michael R. Heim is an American author and educator.
Known as "the philosopher of cyberspace",[1] 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.
Body & Society, 1(3-4), 65-77. , Virtual Reality Wave 3, Chapter 13, Pages 261-277, in the book Boundaries of Self and Reality Online, Editor(s): Jayne Gackenbach, Johnathan Bown, Academic Press, 2017 Heim, Michael R.: Bridging Real and Virtual: A Spiritual Challenge.
He taught at Missouri Western University in the 1980s, was an online lecturer for Connected Education in the mid-1980s, and taught at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, 1995–2002.
Heim is currently a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine.