Meanings
plural cyberbridges
- rareA connection in, or to, cyberspace.
With his proposal to put computers within the reach of every schoolchild, President Clinton could be said to be building a cyberbridge to the twenty-first century.
1999, David K. Barnhart, Allan A. Metcalf, America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America, page 2451 more example
But experts warn that the rural broadband effort could just as easily become a $9 billion cyberbridge to nowhere, representing the worst kind of mistakes that lawmakers could make in rushing to approve one of the largest spending bills in history without considering unintended results.
2009 February 3, David M. Herszenhorn, “Internet Money in Fiscal Plan: Wise or Waste?”, in New York Times
Origin
From cyber- + bridge in figurative sense.
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