1995

Moving forward in time I read an article by Paul Goldberger with the New York Times published on October 5, 1995 entitled, Cyberspace Trips to Nowhere Land. In this article, Goldberger touches on John December's idea that the world wide web was is a communications system. The difference is that Goldberger used cyberspace interchangeably with the web. He sates, "We hear continually about cyberspace as a place of connections made between all kinds of people who would not have come together before." He too agrees that cyberspace is anything but linear, but he sees this as a problem when it comes to being a community. He states that the interpersonal relationships that are necessary in forming a community is gone in cyberspace and that it is leading to a society that is forgetting about social graces. This is an interesting view when thinking about this idea in context with computer-mediated communication. Programmers have tried to fuse this gap by creating instant messages, chat rooms, and e-mail platforms, but in the end we are still missing face to face reality.