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Wilderness and cyberspace are opposites and yet are poorly defined and set off against each other. Wilderness, in fact, is enveloped by cyberspace and so seems to have become disposable and replaceable. The legal delimitation of wilderness requires us, however, to stop and consider how to cross over into it, and if entered thoughtfully, the wilderness can teach us to recognize how, within cyberspace, it has attained a new kind of sacred force.
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Borgmann, A. The force of wilderness within the ubiquity of cyberspace. AI & Soc 32, 261–265 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-015-0608-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-015-0608-5