In cyberspace the map is definitely the territory

If we can´t make sense of our world from the data we take in and the signals we process, we are generally considered to be either crazy or lazy. These factors are usually considered disabilities, but can also be seen as hypersensitivity. Enhanced sensibility can arise from these conditions, and when well managed are viewed as a tremendous boon. Those who manage to elicit a positive result are considered mystics and they have little in common with engineers except conflict. The author maintains that in cyberspace: we control the horizontal; we control the vertical; we control the depth; and we control the frame rate. We are the masters of time and cyberspace, and as such, the maps we shape as we build our cyberspaces are not just representations of the space or delineations of the characterizations of the space, they ARE the space itself. The characteristics are the behaviors and capabilities which will be encountered. We constrain our cyberspaces to those things which we engineer and subsequently craft. The author examines virtual reality technology, its future and its links with cyberspace