His principal work, published in French in 1994 and translated into English, is entitled Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace. Lévy has written a dozen of books that have been translated in more than 12 languages and are studied in many universities all over the world. He is one of the major philosophers working on the implications of cyberspace and digital communications.

Lévy was born in Tunisia, to a Sephardic Jewish family, before moving to France. Pierre Lévy is currently retired and works on developing the Information Economy MetaLanguage ( IEML). Lévy is fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and received several awards and academic distinctions. He was a professor at the communication department of the University of Ottawa, where he hold a Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence. Lévy's 1995 book, Qu'est-ce que le virtuel? (translated as Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Age) develops philosopher Gilles Deleuze's conception of 'the virtual' as a dimension of reality that subsists with the actual but is irreducible to it.

He introduced the collective intelligence concept in his 1994 book L'intelligence collective: Pour une anthropologie du cyberspace ( Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace). Pierre Lévy ( French: born 1956) is a Tunisian-born French philosopher, cultural theorist and media scholar who specializes in the understanding of the cultural and cognitive implications of digital technologies and the phenomenon of human collective intelligence.

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