> > 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...
>
> While I agree that a more "plastic," less rigid layout than the one Mr.
> Soler (?) proposes would be desirable, I rather like the idea of *some*
> geographic grouping. At the very least, grouping sites within national
> boundaries in the same virtual "space" would be a good idea. My concern is
> that, as more and more people worldwide go online, English will become less
> and less the "official" language of the Net; and connecting elements
> haphazardly might lead to confusion. Maybe. I don't know quite how this
> is supposed to work, not having actually *seen* anything directly related
> to vrml.
>
while we are conceptualizing improbable/impossible architectures, i
think that a more organic approach would be more interesting. why
encapsulate dead data in dead structures (buildings)? i propose that
the cyberspace mirror city not be a city at all, but it become a
cyber-organism. wouldn't it be more interesting to visualize a
"cyberspace" where data pulsed thru veins of electronic
transactions/transgressions? maybe nodes on the net could be
represented as organs and their connections as veins. the flow of
information as blood etc.. (i could easily nominate certain
organ(izations) their respective body parts, but that would be
childish)....
no seriously, the more interesting visualization of the web is the
flow of information and not the places that store dead cells... why
create a map of something that is inherently a map already. its like
creating a map of the world where one foot equals one foot.. what's
the point. but, if this map would serve to reconceptualize data in a
new way, i'm all for it.....
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