Esther Dyson
🌐1. A New Frontier
Cyberspace is a new frontier where people enjoy freedom, exploration and the opportunity to be themselves.
🏙️2. Virtual Real Estate
Cyberspace is like a vast world of virtual real estate, with private, public and restricted spaces.
🚫3. Censorship Is Not the Solution
Users choose where to go and what to see online. Therefore, censorship misunderstands the true nature of cyberspace.
🧭4. A Voluntary Destination
Cyberspace offers many destinations. Users make their own choices, and online communities should practise self-rule.
✉️5. Private Email Conversations
Private emails are like telephone conversations—personal, voluntary and consensual communication.
💻6. Information & Entertainment Services
Cyberspace provides information, games, presentations and other services—some free and others paid.
👥7. Real Communities
Online communities bring people together through discussions and shared messages, often guided by moderators and rules.
🌍8. Freedom from Majority Rule
Cyberspace allows people with different interests and preferences to freely choose communities that suit them.
🔮9. Future of Cyberspace
Cyber communities can develop their own rules on privacy, free speech, intellectual property, content and access.
⚖️10. Choice & Responsibility
Cyberspace cannot be a perfect society, but it can offer individual choice along with individual responsibility.
💡 Central Idea
Esther Dyson presents cyberspace as a world of freedom and choice where self-rule and individual responsibility are more effective than excessive external control.]
[Prepared by Sindhu.P,HSST English,GGHSS Kallai]

