Posts tagged with “data”
- noun
- A reconstruction of a deceased person, cloned from their DNA and implanted with their scanned memories.
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- Portmanteau of ‘reconstruction’ and ‘clone’.
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- A Borrowed Man
- noun
- Artificial intelligence created by applying a software morphogenesis model to human genetic data.
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- Acronym of ‘autonomously developing artificial intelligence’.
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- Singleton
- noun
- Death of an uploaded mind without a backup.
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- The Fractal Prince
- noun
- A mutable, foldable, transparent plastic which can display images and text.
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- Abbreviation of ‘information’ and fiche (a card).
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- A Memory Called Empire
- noun
- An augmented projection of the current locale.
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- Spime, an object that can be tracked in space and time.
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- The Quantum Thief
- noun
- A person who possesses a fortune of time.
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- Portmanteau of ‘millennium’ and ‘millionaire’.
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- The Quantum Thief
- noun
- A record of an event created after the fact by combining data from multiple sources.
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- Portmanteau of ‘retroactive’ and ‘construct’.
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- The One Who Was There
- noun
- A reconstruction of a deceased person of historic note, created from their corpus of documented works.
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- Coined with allusion to reincarnation.
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- Accelerando
- noun
- A written document stored in electronic form.
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- Light
- noun
- An encapsulated message sent over a digital communications network.
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- 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.
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- Crypta (vault), from kruptós (hidden).
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- Feersum Endjinn