Re: cyberespace mirror-city
Kevin Goldsmith (unitcirc@netcom.com)
Thu, 29 Jun 1995 10:43:06 -0700 (PDT)
> 1. I use the term "cyberespace mirror-city" to talk about a virtual
> representation of all the Internet resources refered to a geografic zone (a
> city or a region). This should not be, of course, the only kind of
> cyberespace city, since much of the information you find in the Web is not
> relative to a specific geografical zone, but to content. But the one I'm now
> talking here is that mirror-concept, where places or resources in real wolrd
> have their own representation in cyberespace.
>
While I admire Pesce and the work he's done, this is one of his
concepts that I have disagreed with since he first proposed it. I think
that trying to mimic real-world constructs in a virtual environment is
too limited. While I agree that this would be one useful type of virtual
world, he proposes that this would be the primary way for people to
interact with the net in the future. In Johnny Pneumatic :) the main
character makes a phone call by pulling out a world map and selecting the
city. This is possibly the worst way I can imagine people contacting
each other. The makeup of cyberspace should based more on semantic
relationships and less on spatial, but I'm ranting...
There has been a big spike in subscriptions in the last coupla days,
anyone know what's up?
Kevin
P.S. don't forget the vworlds-list web page, let me know if ya wanna be
added...
http://www.etext.org/Zines/UnitCircle/vworlds/