Turning into the wind, the cybernet steered a course upon the freeways of the Mediterranean, carrying figs and olive oil, news, music and poetry from port to port. Whether ancient mariner or cybernaut, the explorer must have a vehicle. To sail to unknown ports or to travel the byways of the electronic community. As I stare at the panels of my space-ship, a blue screen for horizon, I am like a boat in dry dock, marooned, disconnected, and longing to travel. The social space occupied by people linked by networked computers and communicating with each other.
Geographers define social space as a synthesis of perceived and actual dimensions of space.
Perceived or subjective space is the values, aspirations, and cultural traditions that people project upon a place. Objective space is phenomenological, the place where things occur, time passes and is experienced. To the Yurok people of the Pacific north coast, the Klamath River is the center of the world. It is both heaven and earth. From the river, everything is begotten and to the river everything returns.