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thenewgreen  ·  3643 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 3, 2014

I think the "real world" diminishes spaces like Hubski. This place, what we are doing, the conversations we are having are all real. I don't disagree that there could be a better term than meat space, but I don't think "real world" is it.





lil  ·  3643 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Excellent point. The implication that there is a "real world" and a "other-than-real world" is less than preferable. That's along the lines of the experience vs reflection myth that I alluded to in another post. Reflection is another kind of experience.

    I don't disagree that there could be a better term than meat space, but I don't think "real world" is it.
How about "on-screen reality" and "non-screen reality"?
_refugee_  ·  3642 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Can this be "screenspace"? And the other be "touchspace"? Just kidding about touchspace. I like meatspace but probably for the same sorts of reasons you dislike it.

lil  ·  3642 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Touch space

Toughspace

The other thing I dislike about meatspace is that it conjures up a meat market - which always conjures up the slave trade for me. It is dehumanizing.

Touchspace

Tough space

user-inactivated  ·  3637 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"In physical reality" perhaps? Or is "physical" more real than "cyber"?