ABSTRACT
This idea of the reduction of information/content to allow for its storage, conversion, and transmission is derived from a particular approach to the concept of information. Although there are other sources of innovation for the emergence of computers, the concept of cybernetics is critical and is very much connected to the digital binary. Of all the possible terms used to describe this new converged digital and Web-based culture, the prefix cyber seems to be ubiquitous. Partially emerging from the William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984) the idea of cyberspace has proliferated into neologisms such as cyberculture, cybercafé, cyberfuture, cyberworld, cyborg and so on. What does this prefix, cyber, actually indicate and why is it so prevalently used in relation to the emerging Internet culture and the Web?
