Cyberspace

Definitions

1. A world of information accessed through the Internet.
   countable, uncountable
2. The Internet as a whole.
   broadly, countable, dated, uncountable
3. A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

18 more languages

العربيةالشبكات الكمبيوترية المرتبطة ببعضها في العالم، الإنترنت

Catalàciberespai

Češtinakyberprostor

Ελληνικάκυβερνοχώρος

Suomikyberavaruusverkkoavaruus

Galegociberespazo

Bahasa Indonesiadunia maya

Italianociberspaziocyberspazio

日本語サイバースペースサイバー空間

ქართულიკიბერსივრცე

Қазақ тілікиберкеңістік

한국어가상 공간사이버 공간사이버스페이스

Polskicyberprzestrzeń

Portuguêsciberespaço

Русскийкиберпространство

Svenskacyberrymd

ไทยไซเบอร์สเปซ

Українськакіберпростір

Examples

“Meanwhile, the pioneers of the computer-mediated communication networks collectively referred to as cyberspace are not willing to wait⟳. Employing whatever tools they can find⟳, they are constantly pushing the techno-cultural envelope. Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive, frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist, and more decentralized than hierarchical.”

“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.”

“If, as we knew with increasing certainty, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and others were contesting us in cyberspace, it was time to fight⟳ back.”

““We call⟳ on all states, including China, to uphold⟳ their international commitments and obligations and to act responsibly in the international system, including in cyberspace,” according to a statement from NATO.”

“I knew every chip in Bobby's simulator by heart; it looked like⟳ your workaday Ono-Sendai VII, the ‘Cyberspace Seven’, but I'd rebuilt it so many times that you'd have⟳ had a hard time finding a square millimetre of factory circuitry in all that silicon.”

“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…”

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