14.0152 why "cyberSPACE"?

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                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 152.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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             Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:43:08 +0100
             From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
             Subject: "cyberspace"?

    Dear colleagues,

    Perhaps someone might be interested in persuading me and, I suppose, some
    others that the metaphor of "cyberspace" actually contributes something to
    our ability to talk about computing and its cultural consequences. In other
    words, what does this term mean? What is spatial, and what good does it do
    for us to speak in spatial terms about computing when the physical
    disposition of computers and people is not the issue? We are already so
    vexed by bafflegab and hyperinflated promotional claims that, I'd suggest,
    using such words as thoughtlessly as I hear them used is no minor
    annoyance. Unless I'm being insensitive to some deep stab of insight....

    Many thanks.

    Yours,
    WM
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    maui gratias agere



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