Which are you more interested in Exploring? Cyberspace is as limitless as the human mind. We seem content with expanding it and jumping into it with both feet. SPACE on the other hand is boring and tedious. It would take YEARS for anything EXCITING to be discovered. When I say EXCITING I mean to the common man. It seems better to adventure in CYBERSPACE with aliens and excitement and of course SAFETY. While Space is boring and dangerous. To me it seems the more we expand the Cyber Realm . . the less enthusiam we have for REAL-World Exploration. What Do you think? Rocket River
Also, the core and the bottom of the oceans have been almost untouched. You can't forget about those places. We've explored more on the moon than we have done on the floor of the ocean. Space can be explored. It just doesn't seem like it can.
Hey, PSJ, just curious what you do, you seem to have a very keen interest in the sciences... I think space, because cyberspace, no matter how "advanced" it becomes, still comes down to one thing: p*rn.
Exploring "cyberspace" allows you to learn about space, and uh... underwater freaky creatures. They're 2 different entities that aren't exactly analogous. Also, Blatz, Saying that cyberspace is nothing but regurgitated information is a bit misleading. If you know everything already, then yes, it's boring. But... there's so much to learn about so many things in cyberspace, that it's always worth "exploring". Growing up, I was a space/astronomy nut... I still have a big interest in it, but the Internet is quite possibly the greatest invention of the recent centuries (oooh, there's a topic for debate).
Cyberspace has the potential to connect the mind to more possibilities. Eventually the connection will go beyond typing and reading. Exploring space is the embodiment of one possibility.
Well I'm looking for some of those green skinned chicks from Star Trek who are renowned for their abilities to please males of all species.
The only problem I see with exploring cyberspace and giving up on outer space is that cyberspace is a human creation and will be limited by the human mind whereas there is probably a lot out there beyond our imagination in real space. None of us might be alive to the point of developing technology to explore beyond our solar system but that doesn't mean we should give up on it and content ourselves with playing increasingly sophisticated versions of Everquest.
You're right, all of us, you, me and everyone else can learn about all sorts of things through cyberspace but in the end, cyberspace is nothing more than what WE make it. I would love to know about everything we already know but I would love even more for one person to learn about something new, then post it on the Internet for all to learn. *Does that make any sense? (*Edit: I'm a little tipsy and when I reread my post this part sounded a little rude. That was not my intent. ) I agree
CyberSpace is limitless. We can say it is only a HUMAN creation but the human mind IMO is limitless. This medium stretches our imaginations and it is very exciting. I think Space exploration and the such can FEED the imagination but i doubt we RUN out . . .. Hell the most popular stuff is stuff like SIMS simulations of real life. . .where u are SAFE in anonymity and be the bad guy . .the good guy . . .or just a guy [or girl] Cyber space allows us to NOT BE US [See Total Recall . . . .what's the same on every vacation .. . YOU . . but with RECALL you can be someone else] Rocket River
That's right, simulations of stuff that we already know and that's what cyberspace is, a tool used for the exploration of what has already been learned. A very important tool. And I disagree, this medium does not stretch our imaginations. It is our imagination that develops this medium.
The way the net is growing, one day we could possibly jack our brains into cyberspace to connect with other people. The amount of bandwidth, storage and computer power required would revolutionize society. Information would take a life of its own. I've been watching too much Ghost in the Shell.
but it is true Technology is progressing now. . . .that you could be 'jacked' in As we become more sophisticated. . . .we will be making it up as we go . . . .type of programming I think in the end. . . Space Exploration will be done via ICONs [Androids that people jack into and manipulate.] in fact your job maybe to Jack into an ICON and do his duties. .then at shift change someone else does it meanwhile the ICON is over 5 lightyears away and their are no humans on the ship at all. Rocket River
Months ago, Discover had an article where humans could colonize space by sending out robots to find a suitable planet. Once that goal is met, possibly through hundreds or thousands of years of travel, those robots will reconstruct human DNA in their program and start seeding human life. I'm not sure how that becomes a definition of progress. It's like grafitti for the blind to me.... Cyberspace has great potential, but if it becomes pervasive, it'll become another tool to move up. I mean, books on self enlightenment and trancending through thought have been available for a long time. Technology can't force change if society isn't willing or doesn't know how. The questions that show brings are real thinkers. Such as, if we could jack into other people or into cyberspace itself, what becomes of that consciousness while online? What becomes of self when you can literally never be alone? What are the implications of putting human thought into machines or servers?
