Benedikt

Benedikt, M. 1991. Cyberspace: some proposals. In Cyberspace: First Steps, M. Benedikt, Ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 119-224.

Despite being one of the longer chapters of the anthology, I only found two passages at all worth quoting, here:

1. “Cyberspace will not replace art museums, concerts, parks, or sidewalk jugglers’ nor sex, books, buildings, or radio. Each of these earlier media and activities will move over a little, as it were, free – indeed obliged – to become more themselves, more involved in their own artistry and usefulness. Each will be dislocated in certain dimensions but freed in others, as Innis, McLuhan, and Carpenter so clearly saw” (124).

2. “After all, ‘cyber’ is from the Greek word kybernan, meaning to steer or control” (129).