dataspheren.
/ˈdeɪtəsfɪə/, /ˈdɑːtəsfɪə/, U.S. /ˈdædəˌsfɪ(ə)r/, /ˈdeɪdəˌsfɪ(ə)r/ The notional environment in which digital data is stored; esp. the internet viewed in this way. Also (Science Fiction): the space of virtual reality, cyberspace.
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1989 Seeking Product/Company Name in comp.society.futures (Usenet newsgroup) 21 Aug. Does anyone out there in the Datasphere know of this company and/or its machine?
1989 D. Simmons Hyperion iii. 199 The datasphere was a construct delight that first year—I called up information almost constantly, living in a frenzy of full interface.
1994 D. Rushkoff Cyberia Introd. 5 Using only a personal computer and a modem, anyone can now access the datasphere (a web of telecommunications and computer networks stretching around the world and into outer space).
1998 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 11 July (Spectrum section) 6 They track their targets across the World Wide Web... They loiter in the dark corners that offenders are likely to visit, then tail them through the datasphere, collecting information on their movements, their illegal acts.
2001 Guardian 25 Jan. (Online section) 14/1 But real human beings with more human concerns have..begun to poke around the datasphere in search of something fun to do.
2009 J. L. Cambias in G. Dozois Year's Best Sci. Fiction: Twenty-sixth Ann. Coll. 334 You're hot. The Dione datasphere is crawling with agents looking for you. This conversation is drawing way too much attention to me.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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