TY - JOUR T1 - The End of Cyberspace and Other Surprises JF - Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Worlds Y1 - 2006 A1 - Thomas, S KW - cyberspace KW - media KW - Technologies AB - This article reports on Web 2.0, the end of cyberspace, and the internet of things. It proposes that these concepts have synergies both with the current fashion for modifying physical objects with the features of virtual objects, as evidenced in O'Reilly's MAKE magazine and similar projects, and with the potential technologies for collective intelligence described by Bruce Sterling, Adam Greenfield, Julian Bleecker and others. It considers Alex Pang's research on the end of cyberspace and asks whether the ‘new’ of new media writing will have any meaning in a world that is updated by the microsecond every time there is fresh activity in the system. VL - 12 UR - http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Finstruct.uwo.ca%2Fmit%2F3771-001%2FThe_End_Of_Cyberspace_and_Other_Surprises__Sue_Thomas.pdf&ei=y_gCUY-sFcOy2wWv6YHYAw&usg=AFQjCNERh2NDOFVfdMfiM73ReWSaj7aaEg&bvm IS - 4 ER -