"Cyberspace is the `place` where a telephone conversation appears to occur. Not inside your actual phone, the plastic device on your desk. Not inside the other person's phone, in some other city. _The_place_between_ the phones. The indefinate place _out_there_, where the two of you, human beings, actually meet and communicate" (Sterling).
The science fiction author, William Gibson first defined the word "cyberspace" when he “sought a name to describe his vision of a global computer network, linking all people, machines and sources of information in the world, and through which one could move or "navigate" as through a virtual space” (Heylighen, 1994).
"Cyber", refers to the discipline of science of cybernetics, which originates from the Greek verb "Kubernao", which translates to mean "to steer" or “to govern”. It portrays an impression or image of direction-finding or navigation through an area of electronic data. The word “space” has an immeasurable addition, including “so many things that they can never be grasped all at once” (Heylighen, 1994).
The word cyberspace is a synonym for the Internet, World-Wide Web (WWW) and virtual reality. Cyberspace is a shared means that individuals can control or manage their atmosphere or environment. Cyberspace is the way of the future and will continue to grow and manifest into something much more than it currently is.
Works cited
Sterling, Bruce. The Hacker Crackdown. Retrieved 3 December, 2008, from http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CYBSPACE.html
Heylighen, F. Oct 17, 1994, Principia Cybernetica Web. Retrieved 3 December, 2008, from http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CYBSPACE.html
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