meatspace

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

<jargon> The physical world (as opposed virtual reality) where you might spend facetime with the carbon community.

(1999-01-15)

The Jargon File

The physical world, where the meat lives — as opposed to cyberspace. Hackers are actually more willing to use this term than ‘cyberspace’, because it's not speculative — we already have a running meatspace implementation (the universe). Compare RL.