cyber- +

1. The science of communications and control in animals, especially physiological feedback mechanisms and central nervous system control.
2. The study of how communication and control occurs within the bodies of living things between different parts of the body.
3. The science of communication and control within a living organism, particularly on a molecular basis.
4. The science that applies computer mathematics to emotions.

1. A coffee house that provides patrons with computer terminals for browsing the internet for a fee.
2. A virtual gathering place on the internet where people communicate using a chat program or by posting messages on a BBS.

1. The killing of a person’s projected virtual persona in cyberspace. This may be part of a VR game, or it may be an act of vandalism.
2. An expression for killing another person’s online character, or persona, in a multiplayer game or on an internet chat room.

Fictional stories, or lies, dispensed on the internet.

To control a manufacturing process with a servo-mechanism or with a computer.

Someone (a “sailor”) who surfs, or navigates, the Internet.

Of or relating to the principles of cybernetics.

A specialist in cybernetics.

1. The science or study of communication in organisms, organic processes, and mechanical or electronic systems.
2. The replication or imitation of biological control systems with the use of technology.
3. The study of messages and communication in humans, social groups, machines, etc.; especially, in reference to regulation and control mechanisms; including analysis of feedback mechanisms that serve to govern or modify the actions of various systems.
4. Coined by U.S. mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) who hypothesized that there is a similarity between the human nervous system and electronic machines.

An electronic toy that behaves like a pet.

A fondness for, or a fascination with, the use of machines; especially, working (or playing) with computers.

Someone who has an abnormal fear of computers and working with the internet or who has tension, anxiety, and stress when required to work with a computer.

1. A pathological fear of direction or authority; fear of control; especially, mind control.
2. Fear of computers, computer technology, or the possibility that computer intelligence will supplant human intelligence.
3. Tension, anxiety, and stress in people who are required to work with computers.

A type of science fiction featuring characters living in a darkly frightening, futuristic world dominated by computer technology.

1. The notional realm in which electronic information exists or is exchanged.
2. The imagined world of virtual reality.
3. A computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
4. Not a real location but rather the “world” created by computers and specifically the internet.

In this virtual space, people can do many of the things they do in “normal” physical space; that is, interact with other people, shop, read the news, etc. Computer games often create a specialized cyberspace the user enters while playing the game and all the action of the game occurs in that world.