Accessed through any computer linked into the sytem; a place, one place, limitless; entered equally from a basement in Vancouver, a boat in Port-au-Prince, a cab in New York, a garage in Texas City, an apartment in Rome, an office in Hong Kong, a bar in Kyoto, a café in Kinshasa, a laboratory on the Moon.
I think of the vast network of connections as a space that literally can be accessed by anyone anywhere, as long as they have the means necessary. And it doesn't even have to be a computer anymore -- your PDA, a handheld gaming system, your MP3 player can all tunnel into this location.
I especially found the part about Port-au-Prince timely, after the earthquake in Haiti. Thanks to the lack of geographic bias found in connecting to Cyberspace, people in Vancouver, in Rome, in Hong Kong are able to connect to friends and family in Haiti, whether it be by phone or Internet. And even though there might be some delay in connecting because of a surge of traffic, it can be comforting to think that, because everyone can enter equally, once you're in, you're in, and you have the same chances of finding that person-to-person connection in Port-au-Prince as you might in Texas City or Kyoto.
There's no height restriction, no age limit, no permit required. Cyberspace could in fact be the last unbiased frontier in our ever-connected global village.
