Significance of Cyberspace

Cyberspace, or the matrix, is "a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts ... a graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding..." (p. 69). Individuals are able to enter cyberspace by jacking in with a cyberspace deck, which presents cyberspace to the mind as an infinite space filled with generally simple geometric shapes that represent software constructions.