This from Wikipedia (don’t we all love just love Wikipedia) :

Meatspace is a word referring to the real physical world as opposed to cyberspace or virtual reality…apparently, “The term appears in science fiction literature specifically the cyberpunk genre, but it has become increasingly common in general usage as a reference to transactions or interactions which occur in the presence of physical bodies (“meat”), rather than online or electronically. One might also talk about doing something “in the meat space” or “in the meat world” as a way of saying it isn’t being done online. The term may be used as a conscious rejection of the derogatory connotations inherent in the term “real life” and the implication that interactions in cyberspace are less real or meaningful than physical interactions.”

Closely related to the term wet-ware, which sits in the meatspace – for some reason these terms make me want to giggly like a schoolgirl.