Meanings
plural cyberdecks
- literatureA 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.
1991, Robert N Charrette, John Zeleznik, Joel Biske, Find Your Own Truth3 more examples
...then the interface that provides the experience — say, a cyberdeck — becomes a quantifiable metric of human experience as well as a commodity.
2002, Veronica Hollinger, Joan Gordon, Edging Into the Future...people fused either temporarily or permanently with machinery (by brain implants, by jacking in to the cyberdeck, etc.)...
2003, Karen Haber, Exploring the Matrix...a glove with silver metallic weaving and a black cord that was connected to his cyberdeck.
2003, J R Urie, Assassin's Vendetta - informalA custom-built, portable computer.
Origin
From cyber- + deck, coined by American-Canadian speculative fiction writer William Gibson in 1984 in his novel Neuromancer.
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