- noun informal
- Abbreviation of ‘mise-en-crime technical investigator’.
- Origin
- Pun on mise en scène
- Source
- The City & The City
- noun proper
- A manufacturer of prosthetic bodies.
- Origin
- Truncation of ‘mega-technology’.
- Source
- Ghost in The Shell
- noun
- A person who makes recordings of their sensorium.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘memory’ and ‘recordist’.
- Source
- Central Station
- noun
- The science and technology of developing Artificial Intelligence.
- Origin
- Formed from ‘memory’ and ‘electronics’.
- Source
- The Regression Test
- noun
- A class of Imperial citizens trained for supreme accomplishments of logic; human computers.
- Origin
- Possibly abbreviated from ‘mental attainment’.
- Source
- Dune
- noun
- A distributed cloud of software agents that augments the computational power of the human brain.
- Source
- Accelerando
- noun
- The investigation of the properties of Realities (more correctly, Reality-fields) intrinsically unknowable by and from our own, but whose general principles could be hazarded at.
- Origin
- Contraction of metamathematics, a branch of mathematics dealing with mathematical systems and their nature.
- Source
- Excession
- noun plural
- Marginally different strands of reality, caused by sequences of events where various different things happen with subatomic particles throughout the universe.
- Source
- Oracle
- noun
- A software package that directly interfaces with the brain via a wetware implant.
- Source
- Neuromancer