“…Cyberspace is the illusion of space, or the inferred space that we get when we use electronic communications equipment. I’m talking to you right now, but I’m talking to your listeners as well, and in their mind, they can imagine the two of us being in this studio. There’s a kind of space that happens there as an illusion, but there’s also the compression of space and time as they’re receiving this information at a later date than it was actually recorded. So these kind of manipulations of conceptual space are actually a byproduct of electronic media, and we didn’t get that quite so obviously in previous media. There’s a tradition, even of that, as I’m telling you a story, you’re constructing spaces in your mind, to accommodate, or maybe to illustrate some points that I’m making. Making sense of space, making sense of relationships, making sense of connections between things, is a very important cognitive property that we have as humans. And space is one of the ways to represent reality so that we can make those judgments…” From Merging Spaces: Digital Information Architecture to Narrative Imagination - Peter Anders in Conversation with Sabine Breitsameter, Audiohyperspace, 2002. [Related]