Truth be told, this merging (there are lots of possible synonyms, but if I have to look them up just to avoid using only a couple of words, what's the point?) of just about everything is far from new. Back in the days of A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace John Perry Barlow wrote:
Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.But of course that was 21 years ago, and most of that declaration was hyperbole. It's a good guess that rather than being prescient Barlow was simply being pretentious. And yet today, when much of that declaration can be readily refuted by observing the sad reality of cyberspace, "both everywhere and nowhere" seems to hold true.