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by elipsey 2690 days ago
Fantastic. In Ian Mcewan's novel 'Solar', the boorish physicist protagonist remarks that when people talk about "the planet" he assumes their remarks will be ignorant or frivolous and takes this as a cue to stop listening.

This is how I feel about any utterance of the word "cyber" occuring after 1993.