Some think it is the world of computers and communications which implies today's fast-moving high-technology world. That is one way to look at it if you are into abstractions. We are interested in something much more real and tangible than abstractions so we have redifined the term to give it the power and meaning that it deserves.
The Cyber World -
1. An online world where users have the mechanisms in place to transact any business or personal activity as easily and freely as they can transact them in the physical world.
2. A platform for sophisticated online computing.
3. The futuristic online world of computing
This Obviously means the cyber world does not exist. Up to now we’ve been having a lot of fun online using a web of documents and data. After 17 years of surfing maybe it is time to get serious. It seems that we have gotten ourselves caught in a web and we don’t know how to get out.
The Cyber World is the way out. If we intend to do more advanced things on line then we will have to change the fundementals of the game.
Welcome to the Cyber World. What is the Cyber World? The Cyber World is a digital extension of yourself interacting with a digital extension of our real world in a Virtual enviornment. It should be obvious that you can’t build virtual extensions on a web or web pages. We have to have something much more sophisticated.
These digital extensions will give the ordinary user extrordinary capabilities compared to todays standards. The Cyber World will allow the internet to move to a more advanced level of online computing. Things like voting, attending classes, purchasing homes and automobiles, court proceedings, job interviews, grocery shopping, Medical care and diagnostics, computer and home appliance maintenance and diagnostics, real time monitoring and enforcement of cyber crime, etc., will all be done online with ease. Many expected the web to produce all these things, but the dot com meltdown was the first sign that web technology was not up to the challenge." This is the simple part. Maybe not so simple for the web but we are dealing with a Super Technology. The Cyber World's goals and capabilities will reach much higher. The cyber world has the ability to set the human race free. Free from itself, business and government. If there is one thing we've learned from the web, is that freedom will grow anything, it is like fertilizer. The web is purest expression of freedom the world has ever known, yet there are those who want to limit this freedom in order to make money. This is backwards. It is very simple, you just need a little imagination. Because we live in digital age it is no longer necessary to divide and conquer to profit. There is a new recipe for profiting in the digital age. Adding Freedom = Big Profits. No one says no to freedom and yes to slavery. The Cyber World will give the human race true freedom and autonomy.
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We use 2 analogies that contrast the web and the cyber world to help you draw a better mental picture. The first analogy is geared toward users and developers. The second analogy is geared toward developers.
Analogy 1. (Best example for users and developers)
Think of the cyber world as a modern city. It is equipped with all the infrastructure a modern city needs to operate. This includes Buildings, bridges, Streets, highways, sewer and water systems, electrical grids, communication networks, transportation systems etc… Without this infrastructure you don’t have a modern city. What you would have is a very primitive village from the pre iron age barely capable of feeding itself. This is precisely what is wrong with the web. The problem is that you can’t build a modern city on top of a primitive village. You have two choices. Level the village and start from scratch or build else where.
We chose to build else where. We will lay the foundation which is V2. On that foundation we will build the infrastructure D.I.C. (The digital industrial complex). From the infrastructure will rise medium and advanced applications, and behold, the Cyber World is born.
Analogy 2. (Best example for developers)
Think of the cyber world as an operating system like Linux, Windows or the Mac operating system. Operating systems are built to manage the resources of the computer. So the Cyber World will manage resources of the internet. Applications run inside the operating system to draw on the managed resource of the operating system to execute more complex tasks while utilizing resources more efficiently. Applications that run in the Cyber World will do the same thing. The Problem with the web is that it is an application not an operating system per se. It would be impossible to turn the web into an operating system. That would be like trying to turn Microsoft word into Microsoft windows Xp by linking word documents together. That is an exercise in futility, but that is exactly what is going on today on the world wide web. Can You imagine how impossible it would be to use your applications (like word and excel) if you didn't have an operating system? You don't have to have much of an imagination becuase it would be just as crazy as the world wide web is today. Trying to make the web into a Cyber World wont work.
The New Frontier
The Cyber World is truly a new frontier. It will give us the opportunity to make huge progress in many areas. This will be possible because it will be in a new world untamed and untainted by the rest of the world. It will be like a fresh start on a whole new continent, similar to events set in motion by adventures of Christopher Columbus to the Americas.