An e-mail exchange with Lawrence Lessig, the author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. Elsewhere on the Web Links to related material on other Web sites. This research program, based at Harvard University, was founded to explore and study the realm of cyberspace. A collection of sources and tutorials concerning Internet law issues. Cyberspace isn't on any map, but I know that it must exist, because it is spoken of every day.
People spend hours in chat rooms.
They visit Web sites. They travel through this electronic domain on an information superhighway. The language we use implies that cyberspace is a place as tangible as France or St. Louis or the coffee shop on the corner. I recently participated in a telephone conference call with people in several other states and countries. I doubt that any of us thought so.