Lost In Cyberspace

Why Impose The Restraints Of Geography? One of the wonders of the Internet is the way in which it shrinks the world to a single point. This document is stored on a hard disk in London, but you, the reader, could be anywhere. We have readers in California, Brazil, Australia, South Africa, Israel, Japan, New Zealand - all over the world in fact. All you have to do is type "criticalmiss.com" into your browser and you are transported to us. But apparently, when the Internet evolves into the superior cyberspace, things will be very different. A Californian reader logging on will find themselves floating above a virtual Los Angeles. They must then set forth, Superman style along some kind of highway heading for the virtual east coast of the USA and then on over the Atlantic. Arriving over the virtual London they must then identify which one of the hundreds of thousands of "data towers" is the home of Critical Miss. Hint: It won't be a very big one and it might be rather hard to find. This is not an improvement! The only purpose of using a geographical metaphor is to improve the ease and efficiency with which people use computer networks. To imagine cyberspace as a mirror of the geographical world is to mistake the user interface metaphor for the actual mechanisms of the system.

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