Are computer networks a virtual world, parallel to a "real"
world? Can a superhighway be digital? Can a city be digital?
Is the Internet nothing but a huge collective mental projection,
constructed with the aid of a large number of (architectural)
metaphors? If the answer to these questions is affirmative,
we - together with these authors - will have to address
a number of essential issues. What does this mean to the
cities we inhabit now? And if this technological extension
of the urban space has so much "reality effect", are we
willing to throw ourselves on the Net for shopping, education
and even to search for money and happiness? In the end,
will we have to metaphorize ourselves, with our bodies becoming
nothing but a protrusion of the screen?
