CONVERGENCES ("Cyberspace")

It's interesting reading about the history of cyberspace. For me, it's easy to forget that the internet and the virtual world is recent development in the history of the world. "Cyberspace" takes up so much my generations time. It's very much apart of us. Reading that the term "cyberspace" originated in a science fiction novel is very bizarre. It's understandable that travel in the virtual world was so popular though, it isn't as much anymore. Convergences speaks of "Second Life" as if it's going to be a break though in how the world interacts but it's popularity has seemed to fizzle. I know no one personally who still uses the program. I looked at it myself a few years ago but I found it to be confusing and dull. So, to answer the question "Will Second Life and it's successors transform our conventional notions of public space and human community?" I'm going to say no. Time has proven that but I think one of the reasons it failed had to do with the popularity of facebook. There's more instant gratification in a page a with all the information that you need from a person while with second life there still just more interaction.