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The prefix “cyber”, a new mantra (Part 1)
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The prefix “cyber”, a new mantra (Part 1)
Nowadays everything around us is about ‘cyber’. But did you know that it’s been around for half a century? The root that became cyber first appeared in the word cybernetics, coined by Norbert Wiener in his book of that name in 1948.
Wiener derived it from the Greek for steersman and the idea of control is central to it. Here’s a brief listing of some of the many compounds starting with cyber:
Not surprisingly, a large group of words describe people who work with words online: cyber-scribe, cyber-publisher, cyber-novelist and cyber-journalist; such people no doubt work in cyber-libraries and write or read cyber-thrillers and cyber-zines. The introduction of electronic money and online trading has brought cyber-cash, cyber-economy, cyber-buck, cyber-dollar, cyber-money and other terms linked to cyber-shopping and cyber-commerce.
Cybernaut today refers to someone who “travels” in cyberspace – a person who uses computers to communicate. The cyber-culture is the society of people linked by, and communicating through, electronic means such as Usenet and Internet; the cyber-world is either the whole of cyber-space, or that part relating to virtual environments.
<B>(Ashveen Kutowaroo [email protected]).</B>
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