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The word "Cyber" is said to have been first used by the
British Novelist Willium Gibson in 1982 and popularised through his novel
Neuromancer to describe the imaginary space in which computer hackers
work. Mr Gibson states that when he coined the term it was simply a
"buzzword" to describe the imaginary space created by the Internet. This
is the origin of the term "Cyber Space" which even carried over to the
naming of the related law as "Cyber Law".
It may be noted that ITA 2000 applies to the space
constructed by "Electronic Documents" and hence Naavi has preferred to
define Cyber Space as "the imaginary space created by binary
expressions."
Under this definition, Cyber Space is a space
(imaginary) created by documents in the binary language of zeros and ones,
irrespective of the devices used to create, store or transmit them.
There is however an exception in the legal world at least under ITA
2000. Under ITA 2000 the term "Electronic Documents" extends to some
documents which are presently in a non binary form but are either meant to
be used in a computer or are generated by a computer (the term computer
includes all devices that use binary expressions). This extended
definition of electronic documents therefore extends the scope of Cyber
Space from the Internet space envisioned by Gibson to Computer Space
primarily envisioned by ITA 2000 to Electronic Document space including
derivative documents. |
