- noun
- Specialised animal tissue bred to transmit signals over long distances.
- Source
- The Crucible of Time
- noun
- A portable device worn over the eye by citizens, connecting them to the city’s pervasive information network.
- Source
- A Memory Called Empire
- 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
- A distributed cloud of software agents that augments the computational power of the human brain.
- Source
- Accelerando
- noun
- A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system.
- Source
- Neuromancer