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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 55 Unit 1：cyberspace ：if you dont love it ,leave it信息空间：出入随愿 something in the American psyche loves new frontiers. We hanker after wide-open spaces we like to explore we like to make rules but refuse to follow them .But in this age its hard to find a place where you can go and be yourself without worrying about he neighbours . 美国人的内心深处具有一种酷爱探索新领域的气质。我们渴求宽敞的场地，我们喜欢探索，喜欢制定规章制度，却不愿去遵守。在当今时代，却很难找到一块空间，可以供你任意驰骋，又不必担心影响你的邻居。 There is such a place : cyberspace . Formerly a playground for computer fans ,cyberspace . Formely a playground for computer fans ,cyberspace now embraces every conceivable constituency : school lchildren , flirtatious ,singles ,dirty pictures behind their bedroom doors provoke a crackdown ? 确实有这样一个空间，那就是信息空间。这里原本是计算机迷的游戏天地，但如今只要想像得到的各类人群应有尽有，包括少年儿童、轻佻的单身汉、美籍匈牙利人、会计等。问题是他们都能和睦相处吗?人们是否会因为害怕孩子们躲在卧室里看网上的淫秽图片而将它封杀? The first order of business is to grasp what cyberspace is . It might help to leave beind metaphors 隐喻 of highways and frontiers and to think instead of real estate . Real estate ,remember ,is an intellectual ,legal ,artificial environment constructed on top of land. Real estate recognizes the difference between parkland and shopping mall ,between red-light zone and school district ,between church ,state and drugstore . 首先要解决的问题是，什么是信息空间。我们可以抛开高速公路、前沿新领域等比喻，把信息空间看作一个巨大的房地产。请记住，庄园是人们智慧的结晶，是合法的、人工营造的氛围，它建立在土地之上。在房地产业中，公园和商业中心、红灯区与学校、教堂、政府机构与杂货店都能区分开来。 in the same way , you could think of cyberspace as a giant and unbounded world of virtual real estate .Some property is privatedly owned and rented out other property is common land some places are suitable for children , and others are best avoided by all citizens . Unfortunately ,its those places that are now capturing the popular imagination ,places that offer bombmaking instructions ,pornography, advice on how to steal credit cards .They make cyberspace sound like a nasty place . Good citizens jump to a conclusion : Better regulate it . 你可以用同样的方法把信息空间想像为一个巨大的、无