Cyberspace:

The term Cyber space literally means navigable space and is erived from
Greek word kyber (to navigate).
The Term Cyberspace refers to a navigable digital space of networked
computers where organisations, individuals interact with and trade in
information.
At present it does not consist of one homogenous space, it is a myriad of
rapidly expanding cyberspaces.
May be categorized into those exisiting within the technologies of
1. Internet
2. Virtuality
3. Conventional telecommuniations.

Internet
Computers connected through protocol TCP/IP.
One can connect with a computer, modem, telephone to one of the network
spaces. Sum of these nodes and their connections is huge forming a network
that enables people to communicate and share information.
World wide web
Consists of multimedia data (text, graphics, sound, animation, movie clips and
virtual space).
MOOs, MUDs - themed context for conversations and space that users can
explore and construct.

Virtual Reality
Virtual reality (VR) technologies create visual, interactive computer generated
environments in which the user can exist and explore.

There are two forms

Totally immersive environment : a user wears head mounted goggles to
view a stereoscopic virtual world that phenomenologically engulfs the user.
However, they have limited reach used by academia, military, arcade
gaming industry
Screen based environment : Allows the user t interact with a responsive
game space. It is accessible everywhere over internet. VRML(Virtual reality
modelling language)
Virtual reality attributes:
1. They are inclusive,
2. They are interactive
3. The interaction is in real-time

Space / spacelessness:
In modern societies it is recognized that social relations are formed by spatial concerns.
People and their sites of production and consumption are organised in relation to a spatial
logic dictated by various factors such as friction of distance.
Cities developed in order to overcome time with space and were locate where they could
take advantage of raw materials, locations etc.
Death of Distance - was proposed by some experts, where in instantaneous
communications of internet have led to collapse in spatial and temporal boundaries leading
to radical space time compression. This frees social and capital relations from modernist
spatial logic.
Others argue that internet does significantly disrupt the spatial logic, but does not render it
obsolete. Geography continues to matter as an organising principle and a constituent of
social relations.
The use of IT is dependent on real world spatial fixity i.e., points of access, infrastructures,
skilled work force, access to material and global & local markets.
Hence spatial logic does not dissolve into logic of spacelessness.
Geographical space is supplemented by a virtual space allowing people and oganisations to
be more flexible in relation to real-space geographies. An era of new socio-spatial nexus.