tan·gi·net·ics (tănjěnětĭks)
n. (used with a sing. verb)

The theoretical study of the integration processes between actuality or human existence and the cyber or virtual world, especially the merging of these discernible processes into the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other product of human work or thought.

1. Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangere, to touch; see tag- in Indo-European roots. 2. Greek kubernts, governor, from kubernn, to govern

tangi·netic adj.
tangi·neti·cal·ly adv

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods