Cybernaut
In the original sense of the word, Cybernaut or Internaut describes a "traveler in a virtual reality ". The made-up word is made up of cyberspace and nautes (Greek for "seafarer", as in astronaut ). Cyberspace, in turn, is a made-up word from cybernetics and space (English for space). The term has been in use since the early 1990s.
Colloquially, the term cybernaut is usually used more generally for a person “who spends a lot of time online and 'explores' the Internet ”. The term internaut, which is directly derived from this, is not very common in German.
A related term that is more widespread in German is that of the internet surfer or surfer for short. Linguistically, the surfer is more likely to be associated with "drifting", whereas Cybernaut emphasizes "diving" into another world. The term alludes in particular to the immersion experienced by the cybernaut, who plunges into a three-dimensional virtual reality, the Internet or especially the World Wide Web for a long time and only perceives himself and his real environment to a reduced extent.
Special use
In medical informatics and especially in computer-aided or robotic surgery (see also telemedicine ), the term cybernaut is adapted and used for the operator of the virtualized system. The Cybernaut “looks like an 'outsider' through a 'window' into the virtual world”.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ wiseGEEK: What is an Internaut?
- ↑ D. Herberg, M. Kinne, D. Steffens: New vocabulary: Neologisms of the 90s in German , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2004, p. 66.
- ↑ Among other things, Peter Winkler: Computerlexikon 2010: The whole digital world to look up , Markt & Technik Verlag, 2009, p. 203.
- ^ Thomas M. Lehmann: Handbook of medical informatics , Hanser Verlag, 2004.