That’s good news for legal scholars; a decade ago, a bunch of us (including me) fought some not-quite-pitched battles over whether and how the cyberspace-as-place (or space) metaphor should be interpreted and applied in law and policy settings (walled gardens, digital locks and digital fences, and all of that). Be on the lookout for a new round of pieces making equivalent claims about cyberspace-as-stream.
Self-promotion alert: A decade ago, I hedged my metaphorical bets with this speculative paper about the law and policy implications of a time-related metaphor: cyberspace-as-story.