Cyberspace
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈsaɪ.bə(ɹ)ˌspeɪs/
- enPR: SAÃ-buhr-speïs
Origin
cyberneticsspace, coined by science-fiction writer William Gibson in his 1982 short story collection and popularized in his 1984 novel .
Noun
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?, 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.
- (science fiction) A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network.