In "Man and Superman," (1903) George Bernard Shaw named two tragedies in life: one is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. Oscar Wilde modified this slightly saying the only tragedies are getting or not getting what you want. Humorous, maybe, both refer to the philosophical implications of achieving a cherished goal — or not — and were not meant as commentary on achievements such as victory over disease or successfully avoiding peril in a natural or man-made disaster.

Two things come to mind when considering reality vs. imagination: the natural world and cyberspace. One is real, the other isn't. Or is it? Cyberspace seems to be the polar opposite of the natural world. On a beautiful day we sit instead at our computers for hours on end thinking we are the masters of our fate, wandering nomadically if only mentally over vast undiscovered virtual landscapes in the electronic universe