- noun
- An encapsulated message sent over a digital communications network.
- Source
- The Girl Who Was Plugged In
- noun
- An advisor in matters of fealty.
- Source
- Surface Detail
- verb
- To commit evolutionary self-deselection (suicide).
- Origin
- Charles Darwin; evolution of species by natural selection.
- Source
- Accelerando
- noun
- A formal conflict within a virtual reality – i.e. one where the outcome matters beyond the confines of the battle environment itself.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘conflict’ and ‘simulation’.
- Source
- Surface Detail
- verb
- The act of transferring the extracted mind-state of a dead person into a fresh body.
- Origin
- Derived from rĕ- (again) and veniō (“I come”).
- Source
- Surface Detail
- noun
- The essence of a person’s phylogenetic tradition.
- Origin
- Leptós (thin).
- Source
- The Godwhale
- noun
- Temporal slippage induced by chrownons; in other words: timely travel.
- Origin
- Professor Gladys Chrowdingler, discoverer of the chrownon.
- Source
- Automated Alice
- noun proper
- A networked worldwide data repository, containing the sum of recorded knowledge and populated by uploaded human minds.
- Origin
- Crypta (vault), from kruptós (hidden).
- Source
- Feersum Endjinn
- noun informal
- A street drug that stimulates rapid cognition, having novotrophin-B and MDMA as ingredients.
- Origin
- Phonetic transcription of “sense-a-wonder”.
- Source
- Accelerando
- noun
- A distributed cloud of software agents that augments the computational power of the human brain.
- Source
- Accelerando