In the modern era, revolutionary new ways of looking at time have gone hand in hand with a new way of apprehending space. Our relationship with time is not so much different from our relationship with space. In astrophysics, when we talk of 15,000 million light-years, we are talking not only about distance in space, but about an immense, stupefying and unimaginable length of time.

Space and time are like two appointed companions. You cannot summon one without the other coming along, too. However, this couple of companions is thoroughly bizarre: time is unique, while space is multiple. By conquering time, we conquer space. But do we conquer time when we conquer space?

While space can be real or virtual, time can be only real. A digital image produced in cyberspace may do not exist in real space. The digital image is no more than a mathematical outcome. We can play with it and use software tools to do whatever we want with it. Given the existing software technology, a digital image in cyberspce is laden with multiple possibilities. Thus, not only space is multiple -- real space, cybespace etc. -- but also cyberspace has multiple variations.

By using software tools to alter a digital image, we can free ourselves from real space. We can also travel in cyberspace to the point that we can get lost in it. However, the time spent in front of the computer is real. Our watches can measure it. And that is an interesting oddity: cyberspace is virtual, while time remains real. Therefore, the answer to the question mentioned above -- do we conquer time when we conquer space? -- seems to be that we do not and cannot conquer time by conquering (cyber)space.

The only means through which we can conquer time is, probably, our dreams. Dreams seem to be the only real victory over time. The images of our dreams stem from what we think, not what we see. By painting what he thought and not what he saw, Salvador Dali liberalized us from the representational convention. What we see in Salvador Dali's paintings is what we can dream. If we can dream of time while seeing the space in "The Eye," then we can probably conquer time in our dreams. And if we can dream of and create software tools that can liberalize us from the representational convention, then we can probably conquer time in (cyber)space, too.