Meatspace

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet. Internet, derogatory, idiomatic, sometimes, uncountable

    "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."

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;fleshspaceirlofflinereal lifereal life

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"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."

Etymology

From meat + space, by analogy with cyberspace. Compare in the flesh.

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