What is CYBERSPACE??

Reading through the definitions, I can agree with part of many, if not all of the definitions given. So, how to choose just one….

I finally decided that I most agreed with the following definition of cyberspace: The tablet becomes a page, becomes a screen, becomes a world, a virtual world. Everywhere and nowhere, a place where nothing is forgotten and yet everything changes.

First, when I think of Cyberspace, I think something that is constantly evolving. The definition goes through just that. We started with a tablet. A stone tablet. Then began using paper. We went from writing on paper to writing on a screen. That screen eventually led us to virtual worlds. What’s next??? Who knows. That’s part of Cyberspace I guess. The unknown.

Second, Cyberspace brings to mind someone sitting at their computer, immersing themselves in some type of virtual world, escaping the physical/real world. A place where you can go anywhere, be anyone, yet you are not going anywhere at all, and you are not anyone other than yourself. It’s a place where you can escape the physical world and enter a virtual universe.

But Cyberspace is not something that just be forgotten. Once you post a picture of yourself on facebook, send a love note to someone special, reveal anything personal about yourself, anywhere, it is next to impossible for that information to be forgotten. You may delete it. But it is not forgotten. All of that information is stored somewhere. You may change your profile. Or delete it completely. But it’s not permanently erased.

Just like in the real world. You may have had some crazy nights in your life that you wish to forget. But you don’t. You still remember. Even if you have old pictures. Torn up. You still remember. That information is stored in your brain. Just as enormous amounts of information are stored on the web. In Cyberspace.

Everything constantly changing. Yet nothing ever forgotten.