Cyberspace: A new universe, a parallel universe created and sustained by the world's computers and communication lines. A world in which the global traffic of knowledge, secrets, measurements, indicators, entertainments, and alter-human agency takes on form: sights, sounds, presences never seen on the surface of the earth blossoming in a vast electronic night.
This description of Cyberspace made me think “now that is what I think Cyberspace is all about.” I think this because in one click of a button you can transcend in to what ever or where ever you want to be: one can be Superman flying over the Ever Glades, or be Tarzan swinging from the tops of the forest. In a click of a button you can visit your best sister or best friend from where ever you are in the world and share special moments as if you were sitting right next to her/him. Every thing that one would want to know or see is just waiting for you to explore with out having to fly on a plane, pack a bag, or leave your room. Money, time or age is never a factor to take off on a trip and unleash your imagination in the virtual world of cyberspace.
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Good start, Melanie!
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ReplyDeleteI'd have to agre with you about being able to be any age and being able to unleash your imagination. Cyberspace is what you make of it, it can be a place of information or it can be a fantacy land.
Corrinda
I think all the definitions of Cyberspace in the cybercultures reader are good and much like this one at least allude to the idea that it's this alternate, invisible, and persistent world that we can interact with in previously unexpected, but incredibly satisfying ways. In addition to "playing" in this wholly virtual realm, there are these outlets into physical/meatspace that let us integrate the two.
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