consider architecture on the web: a place (website) presents very little surface to the outside, but is much larger on the inside
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it's twitter's frontpage vs everything that happens on it; the "walls" of any social site are plastered with profiles, virtual skins
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isn't that some building that covers its walls with the skins of its inhabitants
"soylent green is people" doesn't even begin to describe it
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many traditional rules of architecture don't apply - w/out bodies, who needs buildings?
but some sort of space does emerge from our movement
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I've thought before that you could apply the original, purely materialist/geographical concept of Ley Lines to cyberspace.
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Cyberspace as is is completely man made, but what about when it's old enough that parts have completely lost their meaning?
Right now, we don't have natural features like rivers, but it may happen
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Sufficiently hard-to-change design standards originally implemented for long obsolete technical reasons would qualify, I think.
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