We must begin with a large question: What is space?

- Michael Benedikt in Cyberspace: Some Proposals Cyberspace: First Steps, edited by Michael Benedikt, Massachussets Institute of Technology, 1994


As Jay David Bolter writes in his outstanding, but little known book, Writing Spaces: "In this late age of print, writers and readers still conceive of all texts, of text itself, as located in the space of a printed book. The conceptual space of a printed book is one in which writing is stable, monumental, and controlled exclusively by the author. It is the space defined by perfect printed volumes that exist in thousands of identical copies. The conceptual space of electronic writing, on the other hand, is characterized by fluidity and an interactive relationship between writer and reader."

- Kevin Kelly, Out Of Control , A William Patrick Book, 1994


In recent years, there has emerged a new form of electronic space that holds revolutionary promise as the fin de siecle metasocial postindustrial workspace. Variously described as a "space that wasn't space," a "nonplace," and a space in which "there are no shadows". (Gibson, Count Zero: 38, 166; Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive: 219)

- David Tomas, Old Rituals for New Space: Rites de Passage and William Gibson's Cultural Model of Cyberspace, in Cyberspace: First Steps, edited by Michael Benedikt, 1994


"Searching through infinite spaces is always a tricky matter, you know."

- The Tortoise to Achilles in Aria with Diverse Variations, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach. Basic Books, 1979


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