cyberutopia

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English

Etymology

From cyber- +‎ utopia.

Noun

cyberutopia (plural cyberutopias)

  1. A utopia in cyberspace or achieved by means of computer technology.
    • 2002, Lisa Nakamura, Cybertypes ‎, Routledge, →ISBN:
      The Matrix constructs a new discourse of race in the Digital Age, one that plugs us in to our own dreamworlds about cyberutopias and cyberfutures.
    • 2014, Mark Vicars, Tarquam McKenna, editors, Discourse, Power, and Resistance Down Under, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 61:
      According to van Zoonen (2002), in cyberutopia the participants would be absent of sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion and disability.
    • 2016, Scott Wilson, Great Satan's rage: American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism‎, Manchester University Press, →ISBN:
      The conquest of America is complete, and yet the highly technologised vision of a future Islamic cyberutopia with its surfing, jetskis and starships is quite reassuring, from the point of view of an American used to correlating wealth and comfort with technological progress.
    • 2020, Alessandra Renzi, Hacked Transmissions: Technology and Connective Activism in Italy‎, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
      This was no cyberutopia: the contribution of tech collectives responsible for the spread of hacking and tech literacy in Italian social movements goes far beyond the circulation of information and coordination; […]

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