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University of Richmond

History

2000

Cyberspace

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A Historian In Cyberspace, Edward L. Ayers Oct 2000

A Historian In Cyberspace, Edward L. Ayers

History Faculty Publications

I am writing here about an American Place, but not about Thomas Jefferson's town, where I live, or about the South, to which I have devoted my working life. Rather, I am writing about that new American place we cannot see but whose effects we increasingly feel, cyberspace.


Cyberspace, U.S.A., Edward L. Ayers Jan 2000

Cyberspace, U.S.A., Edward L. Ayers

History Faculty Publications

I write not of Thomas Jefferson's town, where I live, nor of the American South to which I have devoted my working life. Rather, I write of a new American place, one we cannot see but whose effects we increasingly feel: "cyberspace." That place, simultaneously metaphorical and tangible, has touched every part of the United States. Information surges along networks of copper and glass, weaving ever tighter webs across the country and the world.