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Cyberspace is a term used to define the virtual world, built entirely of computers and computer networks around the globe. 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 actually inhere inside computer systems. ORIGINS OF THE TERM The word "cyberspace" (from '' Cybernetics '' and '' Space '') was coined by science fiction novelist and seminal Cyberpunk author William Gibson in his 1982 story "Burning Chrome" and popularized by his 1984 novel '' Neuromancer .''''Po-Mo SF'' "William Gibson's Neuromancer and Post-Modern Science Fiction" The portion of ''Neuromancer'' cited in this respect is usually the following: Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding Gibson later commented on the origin of the term in the 1996 documentary '' No Maps For These Territories '': All I knew about the word "cyberspace" when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page. Gibson also coined the phrase '' Meatspace '' for the physical world contrasted with ''Cyberspace.'' Metaphorical The term ''Cyberspace'' started to become a ''de facto'' synonym for the '' as the first to use it to refer to ''"the present-day nexus of computer and telecommunications networks."'' Barlow describes it thus in his essay to announce the formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (note the spatial metaphor) in June, 1990:John Perry Barlow, ''"Crime and Puzzlement,"'' June 8, 1990
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