meatspace
meatspace noun: the physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.
Noun
meatspace (uncountable)
- The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.
- In this short manifesto, Barlow erects an 'electronic frontier' between the legislature, marketsand social mores of what he terms elsewhere 'Meatspace' and the radical otherness of cyberspace.1998, Josephine Berry, “What is to be screened – Net utopians and their discontents”, in Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, number 0, pages 66–73
- The HBO sci-fi blockbuster Westworld has been an inspiring look into what humanlike robots can do for us in the meatspace.2019 April 7, Rita Liao, “The team behind Baidu’s first smart speaker is now using AI to make films”, in TechCrunch
- Synonyms:
- fleshspace, IRL, offline, real life
- Antonyms:
- cyberspace
Synonyms of meatspace
Antonyms
Forms of meatspace
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Origin of meatspace
From meat + space, by analogy with cyberspace. Compare in the flesh and meatbag.
Questions about meatspace
- What does meatspace mean?
- Meatspace means the physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.
- What part of speech is meatspace?
- Meatspace is a noun.
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