Posts tagged with “cyber”
- noun
- A virtual reality scenario experienced via direct interface with the brain.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘transmit’ and ‘dream’.
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- The Algebraist
- 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).
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- Feersum Endjinn
- noun proper
- Cyberdyne Systems, developer of the Skynet artificial intelligence.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘cybernetic’ with dúnamis (power).
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- The Terminator
- noun
- A professional performer of interactive fiction.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘interactive (“ractive”) actor’.
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- The Diamond Age
- noun
- A computer-generated artificial actor appearing in motion pictures.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘synthetic’ and ‘thespian’.
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- Idoru
- noun
- A virtual vehicle that can create a barrier of light in its wake.
- Source
- Tron
- verb
- To destroy a computer program.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘de-resolve’.
- Source
- Tron
- noun
- A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system.
- Source
- Neuromancer