We live in a strange era of "tubes", "Engrish" and "Yet Another Invented Word Misusing Word Stems".
What is the subject of my wrath? Quite simple really.... The use of the prefix "cyber-" to mean "The Inter-Network".
Cyber-this... Cyber-that... What a load of rubbish. It is diluting the real meaning of Cybernetics, which is the science of feedback and control engineering.
And this rubbish word "Cyberinfrastructure", as seen at the top of page 40 of the January 2009 edition of the IEEE Computer Society magazine "Computer", is a case of a few people wanting to sound "smarter" by abusing a word used in science and engineering.
To me, they have just made themselves sound less educated.
Instead of the abomnation "cyberinfrastructure", why not use "network infrastructure" or "data grid".
Bah!
You may choose to blame my rant on the fact that I have a degree in Cybernetics.
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