Re: What Kind of Cyberspace Is This?

Mark Waks ([email protected])
Thu, 4 May 95 13:18:12 EDT


Andy outlines three general "flavors" of Cyberspace:
>1) Universal, standard-coordinate cyberworld--the Multiverse. Everybody
>hooks into one big happy world with universal coordinates.
>
>2) Various cyberworlds with their own defined physics that don't connect
>to one another.
>
>3) A distributed world, with no central authority.

And asks:

>My question is whether you could define a system in which (3) is the
>general case, and (2) is a specific case of it.

Exactly my hope. Ideally, I'd like to see us experiment with both
something like Portals and something like CP; I don't *think* they
interfere with each other. (Mark, do you have an opinion here?)
Those people who want more structure can define it, but can't impose
it over things as a whole. It would actually make an extraordinarily
interesting sociology experiment, and I suspect that, if we do things
this way, someone's going to get a master's thesis out of examining
how much structure this environment evolves...

-- Justin
Always a believer in the Let 1000 Flowers
Bloom model, when feasible...

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