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Human geography #7
The geography of cyberspace. Does cyberspace have a geography? What do we know about the nature, shape, size, distribution and geography of the Internet, the world wide web and cyberspace?
"Cyberspace" or the information world created by the Internet, World Wide Web (WWW), Virtual Reality (VR) and other information and immersive technologies is having a profound impact on culture, society and economics. It is also having a profound impact on the way we view and use geography. Cyberspace can collapse space and time, making geography meaningless for activities such as shopping, correspondence and social interaction.
At the same time, cyberspace can also enhance geography by increasing our knowledge of places and improving the competitive advantage of wired cities and regions. At the extreme, cyberspace can actually replace real geography by creating virtual worlds through increasingly powerful VR environments. This course examines the complex interactions between cybergeography and real geography and the potential impacts on society and the global economy.
Reading this article discuss how near instantaneous communication affects your spatial relationships.
Through its maps and more recently satellite imaging, geography has played a major role in the analysis of human activity. People are easily able to explore cities and navigate through countries they have never visited before thanks to geographic tools. Although the physical earth has been completely mapped, no such maps exist for cyberspace.
For homework choose an internet mapping system and discuss.
"Cyberspace" or the information world created by the Internet, World Wide Web (WWW), Virtual Reality (VR) and other information and immersive technologies is having a profound impact on culture, society and economics. It is also having a profound impact on the way we view and use geography. Cyberspace can collapse space and time, making geography meaningless for activities such as shopping, correspondence and social interaction.
At the same time, cyberspace can also enhance geography by increasing our knowledge of places and improving the competitive advantage of wired cities and regions. At the extreme, cyberspace can actually replace real geography by creating virtual worlds through increasingly powerful VR environments. This course examines the complex interactions between cybergeography and real geography and the potential impacts on society and the global economy.
Reading this article discuss how near instantaneous communication affects your spatial relationships.
Through its maps and more recently satellite imaging, geography has played a major role in the analysis of human activity. People are easily able to explore cities and navigate through countries they have never visited before thanks to geographic tools. Although the physical earth has been completely mapped, no such maps exist for cyberspace.
For homework choose an internet mapping system and discuss.