CYBERCITY:CONCEPTION,TECHNICAL SUPPORTS AND TYPICAL APPLICATIONS

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2000-04-14
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CyberSpacefirstappearedinthesciencefiction,“Neuromancer”byW.Gibson(1984),thistermwasappliedfordescribingthedesperatevisionofthenearfuture,urbandecay,andneuralimplants.Recently,itisperceivedasawordreferringtoanentirelynewuniverseandthespacevirtuallyexistingwithintheworldwidecomputerInternet.  BecauseCyberSpaceisanewworduptonow,thereisnotadefiniteconceptionaboutityet.Butwecanunderstanditasfollows:CyberSpaceisavirtualspacewhosedatainformationisstoredinthecomputerInternet.CreatinganyvirtualspacedependsontheelectronicaldataintheInternet.ThoughitislessthanacoupleofdecadessinceCyberSpacewasbroughtforward,ithadgrownatsucharemarkablespeedthatithadexpandedtothewidestcomputernetintheworld——Internet.Nowitsincrementstillmaintainsatthedoublerate eachyear,anditisexpectedthattheCyberSpacewillbringanewparadigmofnetworksocietyforthenextcentury. CyberSpacehasspecialspatialcharacteristics.Thephysicaldistanceisnotvalidinthisspace,sowemustuseanewapproachtodescribethedistance.Therearethreemethods.Oneisvaliddistancethatisafunctionaldistance,asthedistancearedescribedbytimeorcost.Thesecondisapsychologicaldistance.Namely,itisasubjectivemeasurementthatpeopleapperceivedistanceastheyareawayfromtheobject.Thethirdisaholisticdistancewhereeachchainhasitsunit.Ontheotherhand,mostCyberSpacedonottakeaccountofthegravity.Infact,thebearing,magnitudeortimeconsequenceofthegravitycanbedefinedatrandomandeasilymodified,however,theunitlengthanddirectionofthe3DvectorchangewiththedifferentpositionsinCyberSpace.Inthissense,thescaleorshapeofasinglebuildingandstreetarenotrestrictedbythespatialcondition.Theonlyfactormaintainingthespatialshapeistopologyreplacingtheorigingravity,systemtime,colorsetandspatialdimensionsetupwiththeownpsychologicals