> Cyberspace ultimately isn't a space, any more than there was a "telephone-space" or a "telegraph-space" before that. Cyberspace is not a physical space, inde

> Cyberspace ultimately isn't a space, any more than there was a "telephone-space" or a "telegraph-space" before that. Cyberspace is not a physical space, indeed, but that's missing the forest for the trees. The Internet has enabled a totally new social paradigm for which 'cyber space' is an apt term. Do you disagree that a person's experience and patterns of use on Facebook is fundamentally different from someone whose only electronic means of communication is the telegraph? > Blind techno-utopianism is an understandable but erroneous reaction that keeps happening [...] Techno-utopianism is related to but distinct from to the traditional hacker rejection of the state as a valid authority over the Internet. I don't consider either _The Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace_ or _The Conscience of a Hacker_ "blind techno-utopianism". Idealistic, definitely. Heady with anticipation for the world-changing implications of the Internet and frustrated by political dinosaurs who don't get it, sure. Blind or techno-utopian, no, I don't think so. Your comments are dripping with disdain for the idea that cyberspace might be something fundamentally new and that people might imagine a new paradigm for governance that may be better suited to it. It is sad to see such cynical pessimism and lack of vision from someone who has the skills that might help to turn their vision into reality. You can use technology to make the world a better place. It's up to you to actually want to do it.