Boyer’s point of dematerialisation of physical space is especially fascinating as most technology featured in 1960s sci-fi movies are now implemented in our cyber communications and thus allowed us to “physically” interact in virtual reality. Virtual space right now tends to be a fluid space mimicking the physical reality, and therefore as we develop technology to properly explore this virtual space, we start to experience the “annihilation of space and time”. Space is not being limited to a physical box anymore. This mimicry conveys that there is a strong connection between the two spaces, but I believe a strong connection may also cause spaces to lose their originality. Elements that we believed to only exist in physical reality is now in the virtual space, such as architecture and community. It’s ironic that technological advancements to better our freedom and communication might create uniform or unoriginal space.
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You have picked an interesting perspective from Boyer’s text. Indeed, cyber space allows us to experience “annihilation of space and time” which fragments the physical space like Mike Kwok did with Central through his video game. Boyer wrote this text as a declaration of war against totalities from technological advancement and in the hope of better utilisation of technology. However, I would argue that virtual space does not tend to mimic the physical reality as Boyer cited Perloff that post-modernists are trying to “deconstruct rather than to duplicate them [reality].” (Boyer, 389). It would be great if you can elaborate on your point of the loss of space originality.