The World the Way I See It

Monday, October 25, 2004

Dan Cavallaro's Restatement of The Cyberuniverse

Perhaps because the book was published in 2000, which was light years ago as far as computers are concerned, but Cavallaro's book appears to be a restatement of everything that has the word "cyber" in front of it. Maybe it tries to do too much in uniting things that seem so related but are as different as people are. It's likes's Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle - how do you pinpoint something that's moving quickly?
I do like how the definitions of specific words like "cybercity" are cited as coming from particular sources, since these terms are coined from words that represent real objects. The referenced definitions give the words some credibility. I really like the idea of a percentage of the population are cyborgs - that's funny and it makes me think!
I am still trying to figure out the "mythology is technology and technollogy is mythology" thing.

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