From Habitat to global cyberspace

Cyberspace, interactive television, networked multimedia, the great convergence, the information superhighway, and the National Information Infrastructure are all names for the same thing: a huge network connecting people to other people using computers. Billions of dollars are being invested to develop this connectivity, ignoring the experience already available from the online industry. Cyberspace is the next important telecommunications paradigm: many-to-many communications. The authors relate their experiences with the Habitat and AMiX online services to outline the nature of the emerging global cyberspace infrastructure.<>