Cyberspace: Some Proposals

Cyberspace will provide a three-dimensional field of action and interaction: with recorded and live data, with machines, sensors, and with other people. Beyond consequences in cyberspace, these interactions will also have consequences that reach directly back into the physical world, from the efficient running of corporations, governments, and small businesses, to the enrichment of our individual lives with entertainment and communicationÉin short, to our real health, wealth, and happiness.

The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace

Cyberspace without carefully laid channels of choice may become a waste of space.

Mind is a Leaking Rainbow

We can expect the speed of “real time” to help us project into cyberspace some of our dearest phantasms, some our worst monsters. This power of revelation and embodiment will be felt by many to be the utmost obscenity Let’s not forget that both Hitler and Stalin are known for having banned the publication of fairy tales … Freedom of imagination is feared by most powers.

Old Rituals for New Space: Rites de Passage and William Gibson’s Cultural Model of Cyberspace

If cyberspace represents, at the very least, the birth of a new postindustrial, metasocial spatial operator, it will remain for [the] most part stillborn if its parameters are engineered primarily to function, following [science-fiction author William] Gibson’s dystopic vision, as a virtual world of contestatory economic activity … If creative flexibility is critically foregrounded in current research agendas, cyberspace will indeed become a site of considerable cultural promise, and a locale for a new postorganic anthropology.

Back To Nature: The Concluding Chapter.

This is the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

Big Brother and the Bad Boys: The Dark Side of the Net.

So here is the scenario – a conglomerate that includes a merger of Time-Warner, QVC, Beatrice Foods, Microsoft and Disney builds this new network – shining, gleaming, interactive, with fiber-optic cables running into every living room … They know just about everything there is to know about us, more than we know about ourselves … They will use this inside knowledge of our buying habits to drive us so deeply into debt that our grandchildren will be born already owing this Time-Warner-QVC-Microsoft-Disney aggregate every cent they will ever earn.

Legally Online: Own a Piece of the Web

We will start to see a split between the public Web, free to all comers, and private parts of the Web, where users pay either a standard fee or per-link charges to browse within certain areas.