lecture three

cyberspace"Cyberspace is a domain characterized by the use of electronics and the electromagnetic spectrum to store, modify, and exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures. The term originates in science fiction, where it also includes various kinds of virtual reality experienced by deeply immersed computer users or by entities who actually exist inside computer systems." (wiki)

cyberspace's four features: 1. described with familiar image and used as metaphors of sicla structures. 2. made of information offer great power of information to suppliers. 3. body consciousnesses live. 4. imortality.

the myth of cyberspace:
1. cyberspace is independence,no rule to subject.
2. internet not control by any institution, it's free.
3. the technology of internet is free.
4. technology of internet may cause demise of a nation.
5. de-massification.
6. make us more social in internet.
7. bring prosperity siciety.
8. verge of a new political era of computer-mediateddemocracy.
9. unique and exceptional in human history,not subjet to soial forces.

reality and virtual

Transformers: the 2007 US new science fiction: mix the ture actors and computer effect together, use the computer science fiction technic, make the film more reality. the film tell us the story in the virtual reality,