Posts tagged with “wetware”
- noun
- A state of neural communion attained by a group of people using artificial implants.
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- Great Wall of Mars
- noun
- A brand of ocular prosthesis.
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- Abbreviated from ‘luxurious video’.
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- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- noun
- A virtual reality scenario experienced via direct interface with the brain.
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- Portmanteau of ‘transmit’ and ‘dream’.
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- The Algebraist
- verb
- The act of transferring the extracted mind-state of a dead person into a fresh body.
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- Derived from rĕ- (again) and veniō (“I come”).
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- Surface Detail
- noun
- A distributed cloud of software agents that augments the computational power of the human brain.
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- Accelerando
- noun
- An implanted artificial memory, indistinguishable from lived memories.
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- Abbreviation of ‘simulated experience’.
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- Ghost in The Shell
- noun
- A software package that directly interfaces with the brain via a wetware implant.
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- Neuromancer
- noun informal
- A person fitted with an electronic implant to stimulate the pleasure centres of the brain.
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- The Ringworld Engineers