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cyberdeck

noun

Etymology

From cyber- + deck, coined by American-Canadian speculative fiction writer William Gibson in 1984 in his novel Neuromancer.

  1. derived from *þakjaną✻
  2. derived from *þakkjan✻
  3. derived from thecken
  4. derived from decken
  5. derived from dec — “roof, covering”
  6. inherited from dekke
  7. prefixed as cyberdeck — “cyber + deck”

Definitions

  1. A piece of equipment that can be temporarily connected to the user's brain as an…

    A piece of equipment that can be temporarily connected to the user's brain as an interface to cyberspace.

    • More than twelve hours had passed since the decker had touched the cyberdeck keyboard.
    • ...then the interface that provides the experience — say, a cyberdeck — becomes a quantifiable metric of human experience as well as a commodity.
    • ...people fused either temporarily or permanently with machinery (by brain implants, by jacking in to the cyberdeck, etc.)...

  2. A custom-built, portable computer.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA