We rarely hear the word "cyberspace" anymore. Remember? It took the world by storm for a while several years ago and then, like a hurricane, blew out to sea. Maybe as a society we wore it out.rnIt was truly evocative, though. The term was coined in the early 1980s by a science fiction writer, William Gibson, who defined it as "a consensual hallucination." It caught on in the early days of the World Wide Web, and came to have a slightly different meaning. It evoked the sense of the computer as an opening to an environment. The computer could provide access to worlds in which ideas moved and people, who might not otherwise connect, could communicate.
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