- Cyber- is a prefix derived from "cybernetic," which comes from the Greek adjective meaning skilled in steering or governing (Liddell and Scott, Greek-English Lexicon).
Cyber- also largely maintains semantic and contextual accuracy, in that cybernetic denotes control of speech and functional processes. To the extent that it is used in the computer or electronic context to denote control (typically electronic or remote) of the thing represented by the word it precedes, it is used accurately. For example, see cyborg under the History section of this article.
To the extent that cyber cash box - is used to describe entities existing (or events occurring) in cyberspace, its use is arguably accurate as well. However, the term cyberspace (one of the earliest and most widespread uses of the prefix cyber-) was itself one of the least semantically accurate uses, in that cyberspace is not actual space electronically or remotely controlled.
Thus "virtual space" or "virtual universe" would have been a more semantically accurate term, although arguably lacking the existential connotation provided by cyber cash bos space. This connotation gives the term a contextual accuracy and prevents its being lured astray by association with the popular term virtual world, which has a very different and semantically accurate meaning
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