 Cybertext was coined by speculative fiction poetry author Bruce Boston.It was the title of a book he published in 1992, which contained science-fictional poetry.The term is derived from "cyber"- in the word cybernetics, which was coined by Norbert Wiener in his book "Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine" (1948), which in turn comes from the Greek word "kybernetes" – helmsman.