Journal 6

Cyberspace – utopia or dystopia? Discuss.

When I think of cyberspace after watching the Matrix I think of it as a different parallel world. After talking about it in class and hearing it described as a kind of blend of the Internet, television, a digital world and a virtual experience, a separate world made sense to me while watching the Matrix. After seeing them warp back to their bodies through the payphone it made me feel that it is kind of a parallel universe. I feel that people can become so submerged in the different technologies the world now has to offer that one can get lost in another world. Video games are so real and television shows are so touching that people feel that they are a part of them. Cyberspace is now a scary parallel universe that one can now be sucked into and lost if they are not careful of how they use the different technologies of the world. On the other hand I feel that cyberspace could be utopic if the right people are using it. I feel that cyberspace could have a lot of good in it because the size and how easy the Internet and television make things. This is outweighed heavily though by how hard it would be to keep anyone with corrupt practices out of cyberspace. You see it every day in the news of top managers stealing from their companies or this person murdering this person. Once you think you have heard it all a story breaks where Tiger has had seventeen mistresses. Overall I think that Cyberspace is dystopic because there is no way to implement a certain set of values or guidelines within it. This is very dystopic to me.