Archetypes of the Internet

The C.G. Jung Page: Archetypes of the Internet by Dolores Brien. adapted from a review of Mark Stefik’s book Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths and Metaphors

One last word-if the Internet acknowledges a god, that god has to be Hermes: mediator, communicator, messenger, trickster, patron of merchants, always on the move. His attributes seem as inexhaustible as does the Internet, of which he seems to be the soul.