Cyberspace
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Cyberspace is a domain characterized by the use of electronics and the electromagnetic spectrum to store, modify, and exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures. The term originates in science fiction, where it also includes various kinds of virtual reality experienced by deeply immersed computer users or by entities who exist inside computer systems.
Etymology
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.
See also
- Cybernetics
- Cybercrime
- Cybersex
- Crypto-anarchism
- Digital pet
- Information highway
- Infosphere
- Internet art
- Meatspace
- Metaverse
- Mixed reality
- Noosphere
- Simulated reality
- Social software
- Telepresence
- Virtual world
- Virtual reality
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