DTC 475 "Cyberspace: First Steps"

I found that #5 in Michael Benedikts' ten different descriptions of Cyberspace most closely matches my own thoughts, in regards to cyberspace.



Cyberspace: Its corridors form wherever electricity runs with intelligence. Its chambers bloom wherever data gathers and is stored. Its depths increase with every image or word or number, with every addition, every contribution, of fact or thought. Its horizons recede in every direction; it breathes larger, it complexities, it embraces and involves. Billowing, glittering, humming, coursing, a Boresian library, a city; intimate, immense, firm, liquid, recognizable and unrecognizable at once.



The interesting thing is Benedikt wrote this essay before we had Internet, and the web. Cyberspace does indeed form wherever electricity runs with intelligence, as we see today via laptops and IPhones. The world-wide-web is an ever expanding data base of knowledge and thought, which continuously changes and updates. What one may see as recognizable today in cyberspace will become unrecognizable in the future, due to new technology and information. Cyberspace will continue to expand and change just as our cities have over time.