A question we might want to ask here is if computer networks really are non-territorial spaces. While it is true that computer networks transcend national boundaries, it may be problematic to imagine the virtual space as empty, unorganized/free, and borderless. As with any kind of conquering new spaces, not everyone in the new world has equal ownership of the new space. For example, the companies owning (and designing) the gophers with which we navigate the web; owning the satellites and cables through which information is transmitted; and having the money and computer power to establish a relatively strong presence on the web own more of cyberspace than simple users (not to talk about those 90% (?) percent of our fellow humans who don’t even have the means to access cyberspace. So, while it seems plausible that hypermedia will change our understanding of territorial organization as we know it, new/different kinds of *territorial* organizations might emerge in cyberspace (take, for example, geocities, which uses geographical/territorial metaphors of a city and neighborhoods. Also, the merger of Internet companies (AOL and ???) could be seen as indicating an emergent hierarchical structure in cyberspace).

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