A newly born baby is expected to
speak someday. Parents do all types of things to evoke speech,
but there is no singular parental
act or set of acts which enable the child to speak. When the
child does speak—"Suzie said her first word, today!”—the
parents are all excited about this marvel, which
is quite pedestrian in that all normal children
eventually speak.
In this light, when you logon to
the Internet, you enter a “virtual
reality”—called cyberspace or hyperspace.
But what is that?
Where are you?
All you know is that you are one
with, communing with everyone who
is also logged on to the Web.
Potentially:
You are at once local and global.
You are at once individual and communal.
You are at once personal and intimate.
Continue—Virtual Reality as
Secular space’s interior
