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Cyberia, n.
Brit. |sʌɪˈbɪərɪə|, U.S. |saɪˈbɪriə|
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
[‹ cyber- comb. form + -ia suffix1, punningly after Siberia n.]
The notional environment within which electronic communication occurs; the space of virtual reality, esp. viewed as a global village or sphere of human interaction; cyberspace.
1989PC Mag. 30 May 83/3 Meet me in Cyberia? Before the end of the next decade, high-school students from the U.S., Europe, China, Russia and maybe even Afghanistan will be able to met in cyberspace through computer communications. 1991T. Leary in D. Rushkoff Cyberia (1994) i. iv. 44 Just as..man donned a space suit to walk in space, we'll now don cyber suits to walk in Cyberia. 1998J. Dean Aliens in Amer. iv. 138 What happens in cyberia is an unending disruption of settled beliefs and ideas, be they about TWA Flight 800, the best mulch for azaleas, or the meaning of abduction. 2005Sunday Times (Perth, Austral.) (Nexis) 22 June 86 All our little darlings will shortly be departing for a land called Cyberia, where parents ‘shoulder surf’ with children. |