So we had to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. And I think Secretary Clinton and myself would agree very much, when you look at what ISIS is doing with the Internet, they’re beating us at our own game. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay? I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. She’s saying Russia, Russia, Russia-I don't, maybe it was. I don’t think anybody knows that it was Russia that broke into the DNC. We should be better than anybody else, and perhaps we’re not. So my question is, who's behind it? And how do we fight it?” Here’s part of what Trump said:Īs far as the cyber, I agree to parts of what Secretary Clinton said. The term “cyberspace,” though, is usually traced back to William Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer, which describes a network of connected computers that creates a mass “consensual hallucination.” Before that, “cyber” goes back to Norbert Wiener’s epic writings on cybernetics in the 1940s.Īt the presidential debate Monday night, Donald Trump drew attention to “the cyber,” as he put it, in an incoherent response to this question, posed by the moderator Lester Holt: “Our institutions are under cyber attack, and our secrets are being stolen. In the mid 1990s, the term “cyber” by itself was often a shorthand for “cybersex,” or explicit online chatting. “Cyberspace,” in particular, is an old-school favorite that people just can’t seem to shake-in large part because of the rise of concerns about “cybersecurity,” which has kept the “cyber” prefix in use. (The recent congressional record is full of this kind of thing.) Politicians, in particular, still have a knack for evoking 1990s web lingo when they find themselves commenting on modern information systems. They say “literally” when they mean “figuratively." They say “the internet” when they mean “the web.” (The internet is the structural underpinning of the web, which is what you see when you’re clicking around online.)Īnd yet we’ve come a long way since the days of “surfing the net,” “the information superhighway,” and “cyberspace.” Most of us, anyway. The way people talk about the internet is, as with most things, imprecise.
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