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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | [[Ponytail]] presents | + | [[Ponytail]] presents her company's FY2015 ({{w|Fiscal Year}} for 2015) budget for [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cyberintelligence cyberintelligence]. But is then interrupted with a snide remark about the prefix ''{{w|cyber}}''. |
− | This comic illustrates that some organization spends obscene amounts of money on their "cyberintelligence" budget, yet all that spending appears not to have informed them that the prefix "cyber-" fell out of fashion years ago. That the prefix could annoy experts were already used in the title text of [[1084: Server Problem]]. | + | This comic illustrates that some organization spends obscene amounts of money on their "cyberintelligence" budget, yet all that spending appears not to have informed them that the prefix "cyber-" fell out of fashion years ago. (That the prefix could annoy experts were already used in the title text of [[1084: Server Problem]].) |
− | The prefix "cyber" is derived from "{{w|Cybernetic}}," which comes from the Greek word {{w|Cybernetics#Etymology|κυβερνητικός}}, meaning skilled in steering or governing. Cyberintelligence could also be called {{w|cyber spying}} i.e. spying in the digital world, one of many "new" [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_words_prefixed_with_cyber- words with the cyber- prefix]. Many were invented in the 1980s and 1990s, following the example of "{{w|cyberspace}}", popularized by {{w|William Gibson}} in 1982. | + | The prefix "cyber" is derived from "{{w|Cybernetic}}," which comes from the Greek word {{w|Cybernetics#Etymology|κυβερνητικός}}, meaning skilled in steering or governing. Cyberintelligence could also be called {{w|cyber spying}} i.e. spying in the digital world, one of many "new" [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_words_prefixed_with_cyber- words with the cyber- prefix]. Many were invented in the 1980s and 1990s, following the example of "{{w|cyberspace}}", popularized by {{w|William Gibson}} in 1982. |
− | If cyberintelligence departments were given names today, they might be called Internet Intelligence, Virtual Intelligence, Data Intelligence or Online Intelligence departments. | + | If cyberintelligence departments were given names today, they might be called Internet Intelligence, Virtual Intelligence, Data Intelligence or Online Intelligence departments. |
− | This may be due to the fact that government organizations are typically named by middle-aged or senior officials who are generally less likely to be familiar with the current trends in technology language. They are more likely to stick to the words that were used when they first learned about the technology | + | This may be due to the fact that government organizations are typically named by middle-aged or senior officials who are generally less likely to be familiar with the current trends in technology language. They are more likely to stick to the words that were used when they first learned about the technology. |
− | The title text continues the joke by implying the organization learned about the demise of "cyber-" yet failed to process or analyze that data | + | The title text continues the joke by implying the organization learned about the demise of "cyber-" yet failed to process or analyze that data. It may also be a reference to the previous comic, which was a link to a survey for xkcd readers. |
− | "Cyberspace" and "{{w|cybernetics}}", illustrated [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cyberspace%2Ccybernetics&year_start=1990&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccyberspace%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccybernetics%3B%2Cc0 here], are two of the most common words with that prefix (Cyberspace 6 times as | + | "Cyberspace" and "{{w|cybernetics}}", illustrated [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cyberspace%2Ccybernetics&year_start=1990&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccyberspace%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccybernetics%3B%2Cc0 here], are two of the most common words with that prefix (Cyberspace 6 times as prelavent as cybernetics at their peaks). "Cyberintelligence" is shown [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cyberintelligence&year_start=1990&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0 here]. (Cyberspace was used 4000 times more often, although the more common spelling splitting it in two words "Cyber intelligence" was 1.35 times more [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cyber+intelligence&year_start=1990&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0 used] than in one word. But even combining these two versions cyberspace is still used more than 1700 times as often...) |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
:[Ponytail, pointing at a chart to her left, with text and two curves on a graph, is talking to someone off-screen to the right.] | :[Ponytail, pointing at a chart to her left, with text and two curves on a graph, is talking to someone off-screen to the right.] | ||
:Ponytail: Our overall FY2015 cyberintelligence budget was $8.1 billion- | :Ponytail: Our overall FY2015 cyberintelligence budget was $8.1 billion- | ||
− | :Off-screen voice: -Yet it wasn't enough to pick up on the fact that no one else | + | :Off-screen voice: -Yet it wasn't enough to pick up on the fact that no one else had used the prefix "cyber-" for like a decade? |
:Ponytail: Shut up. | :Ponytail: Shut up. | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | ||
[[Category:Computers]] | [[Category:Computers]] | ||
[[Category:Internet]] | [[Category:Internet]] | ||
− | [[Category: | + | [[Category:Charts]] |