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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cyberspace (countable and uncountable; plural cyberspaces)
- A world of information through the Internet.
- (science fiction) A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network.
- "Cyberspace is the `place` where a telephone conversation appears to occur. Not inside your actual phone, the plastic device on your desk. Not inside the other person's phone, in some other city. _The_place_between_ the phones. The indefinate place _out_there_, where the two of you, human beings, actually meet and communicate." - William Gibson
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world of information
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science fiction: three-dimensional representation of virtual space
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