
That is my job. I’m a cyber ambassador. Some of you may have seen the recent film “The Odyssey”. It is a very old story, so this spoils nothing, but it teaches us the ancient Greek kybernētēs: steering a ship. From that came cybernetics, the language of self-feedback systems and eventually descriptions of the internet and cyberspace. Now we have cyber-attack, cyber-defence, cyber-everything, so “cyber” almost just means something on the internet. Originally, it meant steering.