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Cyberspace vs Cyberia - What's the difference?

cyberspace | cyberia |

As a noun cyberspace

is a world of information through the internet.

As a proper noun cyberia is

the connected virtual world that users can interact with by means of computer networks; cyberspace.

cyberspace

English

Noun

(wikipedia cyberspace)
  • A world of information through the Internet.
  • (by extension) The internet as a whole.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=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.}}
  • (science fiction) A three-dimensional representation of virtual space in a computer network.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1984 , first = William , last = Gibson , authorlink = William Gibson , title = Neuromancer , page = 51 , passage = 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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    cyberia

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The connected virtual world that users can interact with by means of computer networks; cyberspace.
  • * 1996 , Peter Dickens, Reconstructing nature: alienation, emancipation and the division of labour
    • Developments in 'cyberia' , the Internet and so on have both inspired and been interpreted by theories of postmodernity.
  • * 1999 , Thomas A. Peters, Computerized monitoring and online privacy
    • If cyberia is a threat to real governments, in the near future they may begin to use computerized monitoring as a way to better understand, control, and probably tax the behavior of netizens.
  • * 2001 , Hubert L. Dreyfus, On the Internet
    • We may lament the risks endemic to an embodied world where we are embedded with objects and others in in local situations, but the idea of living in boundless Cyberia , where everyone is telepresent to everyone and everything, makes no sense.
  • * 2002 , Leo P. Chall, Sociological abstracts, Volume 50, Issue 1
    • The article presents an idea of cyberia as a civil society & uses four categories to present challenges that this type of society brings to the idea of the public sphere: interactivity, subjectivity, media, & site.