| cyberspace
Science fiction writer William Gibson
coined the term cyberspace in the perennial favorite novel Neuromancer.
Gibson used the word to describe a virtual world of computer networks that
his cyberpunk heroes "jacked into." Everyone else uses the word cyberspace
loosely to refer to virtual reality, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and
many other kinds of computer systems that users become immersed in. It's
about as ill-defined a term as information superhighway, but it's much
hipper. |