- noun
- The science and technology of developing Artificial Intelligence.
- Origin
- Formed from ‘memory’ and ‘electronics’.
- Source
- The Regression Test
- noun
- A reconstruction of a deceased person, cloned from their DNA and implanted with their scanned memories.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘reconstruction’ and ‘clone’.
- Source
- A Borrowed Man
- noun
- Artificial intelligence created by applying a software morphogenesis model to human genetic data.
- Origin
- Acronym of “autonomously developing artificial intelligence”.
- Source
- Singleton
- noun
- Death of an uploaded mind without a backup.
- Source
- The Fractal Prince
- noun
- A mutable, foldable, transparent plastic which can display images and text.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘information’ and fiche (a card).
- Source
- A Memory Called Empire
- noun
- An augmented projection of the current locale.
- Origin
- Spime, an object that can be tracked in space and time.
- Source
- The Quantum Thief
- noun
- A reconstruction of a deceased person of historic note, created from their corpus of documented works.
- Origin
- Coined with allusion to reincarnation.
- Source
- Accelerando
- noun
- A written document stored in electronic form.
- Source
- Light
- noun
- An encapsulated message sent over a digital communications network.
- Source
- The Girl Who Was Plugged In
- 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