On how the Cyberspace arose to fulfill theoretical physicists' needs and eventually changed the World: Personal recallings and a practitioner's perspective

Abstract

The very humble origins of the Cyberspace, and all the related developments that smoothly conspired and converged towards this concept, making its emergence possible, as the personal computer, TEX and LATEX, the Fax, the internet, the cellphone, and the World Wide Web, are discussed, always from a personal perspective. A separate, comprehensive explanation of the reasons for the appearance and subsequent evolution of each of these different phenomena, with explicit assessments and a future prospective of the main subject, is presented.

21 pages, no figures, 1st Chapter of the book The Impact of Cyberspace, Springer, 2017