From: as_m455@titan.kingston.ac.uk
Subject: PHIL: Meaning of cyberspace (Was Re: Virtual Chat via Internet? When?)
Date: 4 Feb 92 17:02:38 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Feb4.170238.1@titan.kingston.ac.uk>
Organization: Kingston Polytechnic


In article <1992Jan27.003750.7292@milton.u.washington.edu>, Bob Jacobson 
(cyberoid@hitl.washington.edu) writes:

> Cyberspace has come to mean something so broad and undefined --
> the entire universe of human information, perhaps datafied -- that
> it is no longer moored to any one experience or process.

Whatever you do, don't try to define it. More bandwidth gets wasted with flame
wars on this than almost any other topic in the alt.cyber* groups ... second
only to what is cyberpunk !
 
> How is alt.cyberspace progressing, by the way?

Why not drop in some time and see ? It's a very friendly place ....
There's even some techie talk, though it's highly speculative. Will we ever
really want active AI protection systems ? I think not ...

						- Hermes, the megaflow junkie