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The author is severely underestimating the utility of metaphor. Space doesn't have to be physical, it can be abstract and related more to the imagination than a
by quasque 14y ago
The author is severely underestimating the utility of metaphor. Space doesn't have to be physical, it can be abstract and related more to the imagination than a direct experience of our immediate physical world.
Cyberspace is an excellent term to cover this otherwise strange notion of real-time interaction with our fellow humans based on an abstraction of their identity and representation of their ideas, rather than geographical distance.
- russell 14y agoIt's certainly easier to say than than the "Information Superhighway". (For you youngsters, that was the metaphor that got the Internet funded. ;-)
- damian2000 14y agoYes - that term really sucked. I actually heard it used on a TV news show last weeked and cringed.
- fyi80 14y agoAnd "cyberspace" sheds the ugly association with car culture.