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• meat space, meat-space

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From meat +‎ space, by analogy with cyberspace. Compare in the flesh and meatbag.

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meatspace (uncountable)

1. (Internet, idiomatic, sometimes derogatory) The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.

   Synonyms: (rare) fleshspace; IRL, offline, real life

   Antonym: cyberspace

   • 1998, Josephine Berry, “What is to be screened – Net utopians and their discontents”, in Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, number 0, pages 66–73:

     In this short manifesto, Barlow erects an 'electronic frontier' between the legislature, marketsand social mores of what he terms elsewhere 'Meatspace' and the radical otherness of cyberspace.

   • 2019 April 7, Rita Liao, “The team behind Baidu’s first smart speaker is now using AI to make films”, in TechCrunch:

     The HBO sci-fi blockbuster Westworld has been an inspiring look into what humanlike robots can do for us in the meatspace.

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• metaspace