Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Cyberspace

The idea of cyberspace, being this completely detached environment from reality seems at first crazy. But when you sit at the computer and search the internet you really understand what Gibson meant by cyberspace. As if behind the computer screen there is another world that exists. We realize it's not actually there, but we sense there is something more than just the computer. I think it's a mental phenomenon. The ability remove ourselves from our surroundings and invest our minds in this world outside of reality that really is nothing more than a computer screen, chips, wires, and information. Cyberspace is just a label for something we created and believe is there but really isn't.

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  1. Yes indeed, but it also raises the question of how real is our sense of physical space?

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