cyberspacetime

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

cyber- +‎ spacetime, modelled on earlier cyberspace.

Noun[edit]

cyberspacetime (uncountable)

  1. 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.
    • 1998, The Psychohistory Review, volume 27, page 110:
      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.
    • 1999, Indra Sinha, The Cybergypsies:
      Strange unexplained effects abound, there are regions of gravity overload, of bending telnets, lag and cyberspacetime freezes. In some places time runs backwards.