Der "Cyberspace" wurde von einem Kanadier getauft.
"Cyber" ist eine abgekürzte Form von "cybernetics", das aus dem Griechischen stammt und die Bedeutung "lenken", "steuern" hat. Heute wird "cybernetics" (wörtlich "Steuermannskunst", daraus "Wissenschaft der Steuerung von ... biologischen Prozessen, technischen Verfahren, kirchlichen Gemeinden") geleichgesetzt mit "weltumspannenden Computer Netzwerk". Das engl. "cybernetics" wird dem Wissenschaftler Norbert Weiner zugeschrieben, der es im Jahr 1948 geprägt haben soll.
Das Wort "Cyberspace" soll am 01. Oktober 1982 in der Kurzgeschichte "Burning Chrome" das Licht der Druckerpresse erblickt haben. Geprägt wurde "Cyberspace" von dem Science-fiction-Autor William Gibson, als er in den Spielhallen seiner Heimatstadt Vancouver Jugendliche vor den Computerspielen beobachtete: Finger und Augen der Spieler scheinen mit den Automaten zu verwachsen. Völliges Feedback, schreibt Gibson, "Photonen aus dem Schirm in die Augen, Neuronen flitzen durch den Körper, und Elektronen rennen im Videospiel. Die Kids glauben wirklich an diese Spiele". In seinem Roman "Neuromancer" (der 1984 erschien) schlossen die Cyberpunks ihre Hirne direkt an den Computer an - ohne den Umweg über Tastatur und Monitor. Gibson verglich den "Cyberspace" mit "a graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system . . ." und beschrieb ihn als "unthinkable complexity; city lights, receding."
Der "Cyberspace" begann sich auszubreiten und innerhalb von zehn Jahren wandelte er sich mit Unterstützung des Essayisten John Perry Barlow zu "the present-day nexus of computer and telecommunication networks".
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Menschen, die sich kulturkritisch mit der vernetzten Welt auseinandersetzen, bezeichnen sich selbst gerne als "Kybernetiker". Sie verweisen dabei auf die Wurzeln des Wortbildungselementes "Cyber". Norbert Wiener gab der "Steuermannskunst", wie "kybernetike" aus dem Griechischen übersetzt heißt, 1948 den Namen "cybernetics" und beschrieb sie als eine Wissenschaft, die sich mit den Gesetzmäßigkeiten von Steuerungs- und Regelungsvorgängen in Natur und Technik auseinandersetzt.
Seitdem William Gibson in seinem Roman Neuromancer (1984) mit der Abkürzung "cyber" jedoch den Begriff "Cyberspace" bildete, um so die kollektive Welt von vernetzten Computern zu beschreiben, entstehen aus diesem Kontext heraus laufend neue Wortschöpfungen. Gibson selbst gilt als literarischer Begründer des so genannten "Cyberpunk". Den Vertretern dieses Genres gilt freie Information als oberste Maxime der globalen Vernetzung. Ihr zentrales Anliegen ist die symbiotische Beziehung von Mensch und Maschine.
Der "Cyberpunk" wurde zu einem einflussreichen Bestandteil der Popkultur, was nicht zuletzt an Filmen wie Blade Runner (1982) und The Matrix (1999) lag. Weitere häufig vorkommende Wortbildungen in diesem Kontext sind "Cybersex", ein Ausdruck, der sich auf das Thema Sex in einer virtuellen Umgebung bezieht, und der "Cyborg", eine Mischung aus Mensch und Maschine.
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Das Wort "Cyberspace" geht auf den kanadischen Schriftsteller William Gibson zurück. Basierend auf der Beobachtung, dass Videospieler an den Raum glauben, den diese Spiele projizieren, nutzte er den Begriff des imaginären Raumes in den 80er Jahren für seine Science-Fiction-Literatur. Die eigentliche Revolution des Cyberspace ist jedoch nicht die künstliche Welt als solche, sondern die Möglichkeit, in diesen computererzeugten, fraktalen Raum als Teilnehmer einzutreten und die dort erzeugten Parallelwelten zu erforschen. Der Cyberspace ahmt dazu nicht nur gegebene Wirklichkeiten nach, sondern dieser erzeugt vor allem Wirklichkeiten, die es zuvor noch nicht gegeben hat.
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