#13cyberspace
Cyberspace is reality that was born of the physical world, but is not law-abiding to it. It is a free-communication sharing space that is facilitated through the internet.
Week Two | September 11
Code Is Law by, Lawrence Lessig
"The catalyst for this change was likewise unplanned. Born in a research project in the Defense Department, 1 cyberspace too arose from the unplanned displacement of a certain architecture of control. The tolled, single-purpose network of telephones was displaced by the untolled and multipurpose network of packet-switched data. And thus the old one-to-many architectures of publishing (television, radio, newspapers, books) were complemented by a world in which anyone could become a publisher. People could communicate and associate in ways that they had never done before. The space seemed to promise a kind of society that real space would never allow —freedom without anarchy, control without government, consensus without power. In the words of a manifesto that defined this ideal: “We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. ”2
- See Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), 10: "Taylor had been the young director of the office within the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency overseeing computer research . . . Taylor knew the ARPANET and its progeny, the Internet, had nothing to do with supporting or surviving war . . ."
- Paulina Borsook, "How Anarchy Works," Wired 110 (October 1995): 3.10, available at link #2, quoting David Clark.
~Lawrence Lessig
Cyberspace:
Quote #1 FOund in Code is Law:
"The claim for cyberspace was not just that government would not regulate cyberspace —it was that government could not regulate cyberspace. Cyberspace was, by nature, unavoidably free. Governments could threaten, but behavior could not be controlled; laws could be passed, but they would have no real effect. There was no choice about what kind of government to install —none could reign. Cyberspace would be a society of a very different sort. There would be definition and direction, but built from the bottom-up. The society of this space would be a fully self-ordering entity, cleansed of governors and free from political hacks."
Quote #2: Found In the Declaration of the Independance of Cyberspace:
"Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself,
arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a
world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live."
Definition:
Cyberspace is reality that was born of the physical world, but is not law-abiding to it. It is a free-communication sharing space that is facilitated through the internet.
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