Etymology

cyberbole

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Today it means: Exaggerated claims about what the internet and information technology will accomplish. Full definition →

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The story

Coined by Steve Woolgar as blend of cyber + hyperbole in Technology, Cyberbole, Reality (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.