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In the early days of the web, we used a spatial metaphor as a cognitive transition. The terms 'Cyberspace', 'Hyperspace', and the 'World Wide Web' were used to define the alien network in a spatial metaphor. In his book The Image of the City (1960), Kevin Lynch coined the term “wayfinding” to describe the concept of environmental legibility, the elements of our physical environment that allow us to navigate successfully through complex spaces. Wayfinfing road into the world wide web through this spatial metaphor, navigating a space populated by places we call sites.
Maybe “space” is just how we think, or something we have been trained to transfer ideas through. Space is where we are, and what we know. Even Gibson who defined this 'space' as 'cyberspace' has come to acknowledge that it no longer describs our current relationship with technology. He now argues that there are two separate realities, not — one of atoms and one of bits — but one blended or augmented reality where atoms and bits interact and continuously influence one another. The thing is, there is something in humans that thinks about things in terms of where we are. Our bodies are in three dimensional space making it the first frame we push stuff through in terms of perception.
