"Every Home Is Wired": 4 -- Towards a Strategic Progressive Rock Community

"Every Home Is Wired":
4 -- Towards a Strategic Progressive Rock Community

However, the limitation remains that this model, too, is based too much on traditional, three-dimensional geography. Cyberspace is at once multidimensional and dimensionless, by virtue of its infinite nature and expandability: hypertextual links mean that any two points within it can be connected directly, and that its inhabitants can thus travel through such 'wormholes' from one neighbourhood in the global metropolis to any other, however apparently 'remote'. They also mean that by creating alternative collections and structures of links cyberspace inhabitants can create any number of alternate metropolitan geographies; furthermore, any number of new suburbs can be added at any time. With this in mind, though, the image of a global metropolis, with its increased emphasis on individual suburban subcultures that have their own structures, institutions, and forms of interaction, still appears an improvement over the needlessly confining idea of a global village. "Ultimately, the communication possibilities offered ... can't help but change human relationships. People no longer might identify with a physical neighbourhood for companionship or advice; they can turn to a cyberspace neighbourhood, based on mutual interests and association, as a source for support and information" (December, "Challenges", n. pag.). As a suburb in the global metropolis, the online Progressive Rock community is one such cyberspatial neighbourhood.	Bit 25

However, the limitation remains that this model, too, is based too much on traditional, three-dimensional geography. Cyberspace is at once multidimensional and dimensionless, by virtue of its infinite nature and expandability: hypertextual links mean that any two points within it can be connected directly, and that its inhabitants can thus travel through such 'wormholes' from one neighbourhood in the global metropolis to any other, however apparently 'remote'. They also mean that by creating alternative collections and structures of links cyberspace inhabitants can create any number of alternate metropolitan geographies; furthermore, any number of new suburbs can be added at any time. With this in mind, though, the image of a global metropolis, with its increased emphasis on individual suburban subcultures that have their own structures, institutions, and forms of interaction, still appears an improvement over the needlessly confining idea of a global village. "Ultimately, the communication possibilities offered ... can't help but change human relationships. People no longer might identify with a physical neighbourhood for companionship or advice; they can turn to a cyberspace neighbourhood, based on mutual interests and association, as a source for support and information" (December, "Challenges", n. pag.). As a suburb in the global metropolis, the online Progressive Rock community is one such cyberspatial neighbourhood.

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