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Essay On Virtual Space

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How much time do I need to wait for to make the dough rise? What is the closest star after the sun? Who acted in the movie 'Pretty Woman'? The answers to all these questions are a Google away in today's world. 'However, before the invention of this mastermind, how were people managing to find answers to these questions?' thinks the common mind of the 21st century. The inculcation of this very thought exemplifies the transformation that accessibility of free data in virtual space has brought into mankind. Not only has the human mind transformed, but it has also become dependent on this very concept. As ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus remarked, ''The only constant in this world is change''.
The very idea that bursts up in one's mind when one hears of free accessible data in a virtual world is the internet. In the present century, human beings have been institutionalized into …show more content…

The flood gates of cultures were opened, soaking and drowning people in ideologies and concepts which were not very different from Copernicus proposing that the Earth is round. All this information was now available on a database accessible to people around the world. What would you define it as if not accessibility of free data in virtual space? Virtual spaces have proven to help people create different personas, be it in a game or a simulated world. However, now, different personas are not only restricted to games or simulated worlds. These have penetrated through the basic concept of a virtual space. Data available in the virtual world provides a platform for people to compare themselves to different people around the world. There is a synapse between different cultures which is filled by the people. The impulse which passes on these synapses is one of cultural inspiration which ultimately leads to people finding faults in their cultures or lifestyles and thus improvising

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