In this chapter we have looked at the way that the technologies of cyberspace are value-laden and how their use shapes our thinking. They raise questions of truth, relationship, power and personhood. Cyberspace will, willy-nilly, shape our thinking. Rather than allowing it to do so passively, we believe that Christians should seek to play an active role in this shaping process, and thereby influence cyberspace itself.
In order to arrive at a destination, an aeroplane or boat needs to interact with the forces that push on it one way then another; and the same is true in order to arrive at any chosen end for a social system. We have illustrated some of those forces in order that we can choose how to respond. The next chapter looks at possible destinations and the characteristics that Christianity might seek. By doing so we might begin to know how to gain answers to the questions raised here - 'What is true?', 'What are real relationships?', 'Who has the power?', and 'What is a person?' - in cyberspace.