Quote Originally Posted by ganulv View Post
*The infrastructure necessary for the existence of cyberspace can of course be put on a grid but the space in cyberspace is just a metaphor, and a not very felicitous metaphor as far as I am concerned.
That definition is the result of highly inherent biases towards the technological attributes and forgetting the entirety of the scope of cyberspace. Gibson was looking for a lyrical bent when he said cyberspace was a common delusion. He was right when you think of it as cognitive as well as technological. Elements of many different areas make up the tools we interact with the terrain of cyberspace. Much like any other terrain.

The idea of cyberspace is far from new. The man-machine interface predates the modern computer. Norbert Wiener wrote cybernetics back in the late 50s. That discussion after about a decade devolved into a metaphysical discussion which simply couldn't withstand the Popperian/empiricist politics of the time. I'm afraid cyberspace will likely go that way within the next decade.