DTC 475 Blog Assign #1

In reading Michael Benedikt's essay, "Cyberspace: First Steps", I actually agreed with three of the descriptions of cyberspace. I read each description three more times and chose one certain selection that resonated the most with my preconceived notion of "cyberspace". I chose the third description.
I completely agree with the description of cyberspace as "Accessed through any computer linked into the system; a place, one place, limitless; entered equally from a basement in Vancouver, a boat in Port-au-Prince, a cab in..........". I believe this states cyberspace in a very general but precise manner. You cannot enter cyberspace without a computer of some sorts. You must "link" into an ISP or server to enter cyberspace. Cyberspace is certainly a place to be; a vast collection of sub-places and sub-places after that and so on. Each new large or small piece of data that is uploaded via the internet creates an even more vast and spreading space. This space is infinitely growing and limitless, unless one complete person in charge of the internet pulls the plug. There is no one person that can pull the plug on the limitless growth of cyberspace in the entire world. Cyberspace will always grow. Anyone that has a computer of sorts, has the link via the internet, and has a space to go to via the internet, can equally enter the vast cyberspace. You can be anywhere provided you have the right equipment, means, and destination.
I really like the ending of the description: "a laboratory on the Moon". While we have not gone that far quite yet to allow internet on the Moon, the Moon has been visited and that would likely be the next place in the universe that cyberspace will be visited. Benedikt thought only a short time ahead in his older essay. You can be certain his essay and this description I used will become 100% true in the future, near or far, when cyberspace is visited on the Moon. When that happens, cyberspace will start to branch out into actual outer space and become even more limitless. For now, his preconceived account of cyberspace chosen here has become very accurate, clear, and evident on this semi-universe we call Earth.