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cyberspacetime en · NOUN

Etymology

From cyber- + spacetime, modelled on earlier cyberspace.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The cyberspace equivalent of spacetime: a notional space for electronic communication that also has a temporal aspect, so that one thing happens before or after another.
    • Strange unexplained effects abound, there are regions of gravity overload, of bending telnets, lag and cyberspacetime freezes. In some places time runs backwards. 1999, Indra Sinha, The Cybergypsies:
    • It is precisely the diversity of positions on the supposed liberatory nature of the internet and “cyberspacetime” that is the main strength of this volume. 1998, The Psychohistory Review, volume 27, page 110: