One of the more innovative views of government's role in the Internet era comes from Lawrence Lessig, an antitrust scholar and the author of "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace".
The latest cohort of parents grew up in the internet era – most of them are digital natives too, and well aware of the perils and pitfalls of cyberspace.
Miao Xiaochun, an instructor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, is unveiling in Venice a digital print on canvas titled "The Last Judgment in Cyberspace," an Internet-era update on Michelangelo's fresco in the Sistine Chapel, and a 3-D animation called "Limitless".
The editor and her founding colleagues, Stephen Gan and James Kaliardos, saw the magazine as an interactive experience long before the era of cyberspace.
We are entering a whole new era of cyberspace, which is going to make governance of things we cherish, and the enforcement of even some basic laws, much more difficult.
For those who want to know how we got where we are, Marina Benjamin's Rocket Dreams (Chatto, January) offers a cultural history of the space age which takes the story up to the era of cyberspace.
Recent studies on group polarisation in cyberspace suggest that this era of mass communication only makes this worse – that we become more extreme in like-minded groups, more contemptuous of differing viewpoints, than we are as individuals.
Anthony Corrado, coauthor of a slick Aspen Institute booklet titled "Elections in Cyberspace: Toward a New Era in American Politics," says that emerging technologies are "redefining traditional forms of political activity and transforming the character of the political dialogue".
That was long before the era of cyberspace and the maximum surveillance state that grows topsy-turvy with every administration.
"This strategy is not simply about embracing the newest technology - it is about keeping the DoD workforce relevant in an era when information and cyberspace play a critical role in mission success," she said.
