The World Wide Web is a place of its own, and really doesn’t have physical boundaries, or borders. But that doesn’t mean that it isn’t part of the world.

As much as I enjoy his writing, I have to confess that when cyberpunk fiction pioneer William Gibson started a blog, and kept it running for nine months, it bothered me when he referred to the world as “Meatspace” more than a couple of times. For instance, here:

The same thing, you’ll recall, happened with Salam Pax, whose Iraqiness and whereabouts in meatspace were hotly debated, with some declaring him the subtle tool of devilishly clever Iraqi intelligence operatives.

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