[ExI] Looking for a word

[Ross Evans]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to crystallize a concept, and I need a word to help to do it.
>
> The online world is now full of APIs, which let code literate people
> talk to online services (all the standard webby protocols, google's
> many apis, amazons compute cloud ++, twitter APIs, facebook APIs, etc
> etc etc). There are myriad ways of interacting with these things, from
> having code on your own machines reach out to them, to hosting code
> "out there" in online services.
>
> I'm conceptualizing this as a multidimensional space through which
> code literate people can move, interact, create, in a very real sense
> in which we partially can already live. What would you call this
> space? It's a bit like a noosphere, but that term would be a bit trite
> and not do the concept justice. And don't say cyberspace. Any ideas?
>
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How about a neologism...

'Discorpality' a conflation of discorporate and reality.  A reality existing
in the ethereal realms of the cyberspace.
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