Paul Levinson’s Dreams Of Getting Off Planet

Paul levinson is one of the representative figure of media environment school, has been hailed as a "digital McLuhan". His life work, theoretical results. Among the numerous theory, on the interpretation of "dreams of getting off planet" when he was the most beautiful idea. Levinson criticism will be carried out in the digital age and think the futures of human space flight, the human living space extend into space.The mainline of this study was to demonstrate the human from the cyber space back to real space and then moved into space. Argument follows three clues:the first clue is a human from cyberspace to the real space for the cause of modest retreat, first of all, from the perspective of media evolution shows that today’s communications and transportation between state, that are in conformity with the age of the Internet of the means of transport can only is the spaceship, at the same time due to the limitation of cyberspace itself and to humanity, the human instinct for human perception and touch on real space; The second clue is the real space from the earth into space for the reason, the human’s real space is affected by the natural disaster and terrorist attack, the real space on the earth is not as safe our imagination, to face the dangers of the real world of human instinctive reaction is to escape, substances into space, because by humans developed the earth has no place; The third clue is from the aspect of space of parsing human how to realize "dreams of getting off planet", tools of human development space, partner with the principal part of power. Finally is the innovation of this article, the author will of levinson’s theory of "dreams of getting off planet" moderate criticism, including his superiority "western civilization", "one-sided religion" and "escape terrorism" and other potential thought.