If cyberspace was a product of the PC era, some are arguing, Web 2.0 can be thought of as a wave-front combining technologies, practices, experiences, and ways of thinking about technologies, that will erode the notion of cyberspace.
Here's Jim Benson at J. LeRoy on "Web 2.0's Oedipal Trajectory:"
The PC is the domain of cyberspace. It exists through the screen, the look, the assumption that there is a single device that equates with connection to the net. That the "net" itself is a single location you arrive at through the browser.
The goal of cyberspace's journey is to get to the net.
The assumption of Web 2.0 is that the net is as pervasive in human existence as being on Earth is. I rarely leave Seattle to get to Earth. Earth's existence is pretty important to me, but I never have to leave where I am to get there. So "surfing cyberspace" is becoming similar to saying "going to earth".
So while Web 2.0 is based strongly on its cyberspace roots, it must kill some of the primary concepts of those roots to continue and better serve human interaction.
Apparently Jim was at an IFTF event where I talked about the death of cyberspace, but was at a concurrent session, so we never connected on it. The Institute is on the verge of suffering from an overabundance of interesting people: after every event, I seem to find people blogging about stuff that happened at it, and wishing I'd been able to talk to them.
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