Cyberspace…

Cyberspace is a primordial concept in Cyberpunk literature. It's the representation of the man without the body, of the power of the mind over the physical presence. And it's also the metaphor through which we are informed that technology has beaten human essence in the battle of dominating life. If you really want to know what Cyberspace really is and the reason it exists can visit this

http://uregina.ca/~gingrich/apr298.htm

page, it talks about the importance of Technology, the relationship of Cyberspace and the human body, virtual reality, bandwidth, social interaction related to Cyberspace and many more concepts, that are clearly defined and structured in different sections, though it is not written in a way that can be enjoyed, the information provided is very useful when trying to understand the concepts and theory of Cyberspace reality.

Who hasn't been to the cinema to watch Matrix in the last few years, or has at least (maybe even against his strongest principles) succumbed to watch it on video? It is a fact that we, humans, seem to have got fed up with our own reality and now we search frontiers beyond it. And maybe even different realities in which to search for more frontiers. We like doing these things… cyberspace is more like an addictive drug to most of the characters in Cyberpunk novels. It's not a location or a situation in which they choose to be, it's more like somewhere you "are", stating the fact that you "aren't" when not there. Which is, at least, very worrying.

Most characters also become self-destructive through this process of projecting their "selves" towards realities that are not their own. So their physical body is of little importance from then on. It, most of the times, becomes more like a part of themselves and when they can't enter this parallel universe, life seems meaningless. Why does this happen? I believe it's a logical consequence of the crime of man against nature. This exemplifies the way humans abandon their own existence, in favour of an image of themselves projected in a parallel (though surreal) universe. It is, through this process, that characters usually find freedom (or what they believe is freedom). But what it really is, ironically, is another cage in which paranoia and physical dependence on drugs is made more obvious than ever. The fact that the limits to what one can do in Cyberspace are few, only exemplifies the cruel truth, the more freedom and free agency we are given, the worse the outcome is.