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A rather hackneyed prefix denoting a
person, object or idea related to technology, especially that of the
internet and its culture. The term was introduced in 1948 by Norbert Weiner,
a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit), who derived
the word cybernetics from a Greek word meaning helmsman or governor to
denote the new science of control systems. Its reappearance in popular
culture can be traced to doctor Who's cybermen, although it was most
famously used in the term cyberspace, coined by William Gibson to describe
the geography of the online world in his novel Neuromancer. It is now
appropriated for use in many contemporary terms, including cybercafe,
cybernaut, cyberpunk, cyberrights, cybersex, cyberstalker and
cyberventing. |
