cyberspace
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A portmanteau of cybernetics and space, coined by science-fiction writer William Gibson in his 1982 short story collection Burning Chrome and popularized in his 1984 novel Neuromancer.
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Wikipedia cyberspace (countable and uncountable; plural cyberspaces)
- A world of information through the Internet.
- (by extension) The internet as a whole.
- 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, the Guardian:
- However, some have accused cyberspace of provoking a dangerous collapse in the old order of civilised society. The shift in the balance of power online has given rise to a more powerful concern: the rise of the uncivil web.
- 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, the Guardian:
- (science fiction) A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network.
Translations [edit]
world of information
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science fiction: three-dimensional representation of virtual space
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