Wendy Chun, Group response from Natalia, Fernando, Mike, and Martin.

In “Why Cyberspace” Wendy Chun discuses the internet and cyberspace, she refers to this system as a heterotopia this means that it posses all kinds of diverse content and homogenous which means that while it is accessible everywhere it is another system of control. She argues whether a system that homogenizes all information is good. Concerning Space she talks about the cyberspace not being one yet having its own illusion of time and space based on the real. We talked about our relationship to the internet and its potential to blur our notion of time. Spending a large amount of time on what it’s called cyberspace results on the user being a passive receiver with a sedentary lifestyle. So how much of internet time does it takes for it to affect someone’s reality. We agreed that code is a democratic tool because it can be disseminated through open source to people. But codes work somehow like different languages which are not approachable by most of people so the actual change that a democratic code can make is questionable.
Although time is a human construct how does cyberspace recreate our relationship with time?