Is There a Ghost In The Machine?

Yeah, cyberspace, don't really know a whole lot about that. No, you're looking at me kind of funny I guess because I'm touted as the foremost expert on cyberspace, at least the operations and capabilities thereof. Truth is that we know very little about how cyberspace works. We know it works on a cognitive gestalt meta-narrative principle which is somebody's fancy way of saying we turn our thoughts into a collaborative story in order to accomplish things in the Cyber realm.
Some things are actually too simple to waste our time on from the Cyber realm. It takes as much effort, or lack thereof, to turn off a light switch in the “real-world" as it does in the Cyber Realm: one literally sees themselves walking over to a light switch and turning it off, or one sees themselves addressing the light switch and requesting that it turn itself off. This is no different than our current state of affairs outside of the Cyber Realm. The key difference is that I can perform that same task 100 times before you even have an opportunity to speak your request, and that is the power of the Cyber Realm. But for complicated things like data acquisition, set manipulation, and other tasks dealing with Informatics, the Cyber realm is vastly superior. We can visualize ways of accessing the data in a such a way that it has essentially manipulated itself ahead of time - and please don’t force me to go into that as it’s way too complicated.
We understand few of the rules, and almost none of the principles. The Cyber realm goes beyond just the idea of brains interacting with starsystem spanning computer networks; the Realm may transcend time and or space. And this is just a theory, but we are not sure of everything that happens in cyberspace. And until we do, oh, it's best that we avoid using it at any real level. Because what we have managed to find out is that every network interfaced system is somehow, someway, connected to the Cyber Realm at levels we can't begin to truly understand. Here's the problem: we are so reliant upon our SmartSystems for even a weather report that we can't simply turn access to the Cyber Realm off without turning off every last system, every one of them, to be sure they're no longer connected. We don't know how long this has been going on, maybe since the dawn of computing systems which used electricity to transmit information through powered communication lines; we simply don't know.
Take our SQuIDs - Sub Quantum Interface Drives. They hold incredibly vast sums of knowledge - and we don’t even know how they keep the amount of data that they do. The simplest models have at least 12 times as much capacity as their physical parameters should allow for. Where does the rest of that information go and why are we able to reliably retrieve and manipulate it and easily reproduce the technology?
And by the way, anything that happens in Cyberspace that we don’t understand? We call it a Glitch. Glitches have occurred in Cyberspace, verified, where people are having conversations with constructs which are literally light years away. They don’t know how it happened, or why. On top of that, cyberspace is terribly addictive. Numerous people have suffered, some have even died from bodily neglect. And then, somehow, some way, it seems that if any damage occurs to your construct while you're in the Cyber realm, it translates to your psyche, and often to your body. A hurt Cyber realm arm typically creates debilitating shadow damage to your physical body in the real world. And yes, people have died from being exposed to Cyber realm dangers. 
So with all that in mind, the restrictions against accessible SmartSystems and the ban on neural wetware is not only understandable, I’m not even sure that it’s enough. Why? Because we need to explore this realm. We just may not be ready for what we’d find.
-Gandalf the Grey, CyberWizard.