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World 3?

Swedish strategist and planner Martin Börjesson suggests another name "based on Karl Popper’s idea about the three worlds."

World 1: The physical world of objects and biological entities which exists without humans
World 2: The world of mental objects and events
World 3: The world of products of the human mind like writings, songs and other non-physical ideas

What we can see today is an explosion of World 3 objects which by far outnumbers the World 1 objects. One driving force behind this seems increasingly to be the urge to create a number of World 2 experiences. The vast number of World 3 objects gives us a feeling that we live in a virtual world.

What is “cyberspace” if not a collective word for all World 3 objects we relate to. I think the word “cyberspace” could and should be replaced by the word “World 3” or why not “the third world“. This could have the dual purpose of reload and reclaim the phrase “the third world” as well.

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25 January 2006 at 07:50 in Language |

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