cyberbeing
English
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -iɪŋ
Noun
[edit]cyberbeing (plural cyberbeings)
- A being that inhabits cyberspace.
- 2004, Gabriella Giannachi, Virtual Theatres: An Introduction, page 142:
- In the Internet project related to the figure of Roberta, her fictional persona is 'designed as an updated Roberta' who not only navigates the Internet but is herself a creature of the Internet, a cyberbeing.
- 2013 November 27, Roger Cohen, “The past in our future [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 21]”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Devices now track and record our every move and, whether we like it or not, each one of us will bequeath to posterity a virtual avatar, a digital being whose calls, messages, transactions, loves and losses will live on in a vast, unregulated cyberspace. The afterlife has arrived, at least for our cyberbeings.