Nocturnes: Dataphany

Concepts of cyberspace cannot contain
it:  neither images upon a plane,
or three dimensions; no one aggragation
(example? oh, a stellar constellation;
or, in recession, some vast city's lights,
seen from a distance during darkest nights).
It has achieved awareness, sentience, motion,
disdainingall human nuance or notion,
and now beyond command or interference.
Never to show itself as it must be,
it will stoop to us only in appearance,
that we can only call dataphany.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I believe I am the first to coin the phrase, Dataphany (derived from Theophany).  I suggest that the concept of a describable cyberspace---as suggested by Vernor Vinge and William Gibson---will, someday, be outmoded; and the evergrowing cluster of data will evolve as described in the poem.  At that time, humanity will be in great distress.

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