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• cyberspace: /si:'ber-spays/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'
  a characteristic prop of {cyberpunk} SF. At the time of this writing (mid-1991), serious efforts to construct {virtual reality} interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are already under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets....
• This was it. This was what he was, who he was, his being.
  He forgot to eat. Sometimes he'd resent having to leave the deck to use the toilet....
• cyberspace /si:'br-spays`/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'
  a characteristic prop of cyberpunk SF. Serious efforts to construct virtual reality interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets....
• upload /uhp'lohd/ v. 1. [techspeak] To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral `client' system to a larger or central `host' one.
  A transfer in the other direction is, of course, called a download (but see the note about ground-to-space comm under that entry)....
• Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. -- Mark Twai
• Database Manager - A program that allows the user to manipulate data in every conceivable way except the absolutely essential one he or she conceives of the day after entering 20 Megabytes of raw data.
  -- From the Government Computer News, November 21, 1988 Issue...
• wetware /wet'weir/ n. [prob. from the novels of Rudy Rucker] 1.
  The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or software....
• The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
  -- William Gibson, "Neuromance...
• peedometer n. A pattern of lights displayed on a linear set of LEDs (today) or nixie tubes (yesterday, on ancient mainframes).
  The pattern is shifted left every N times the operating system goes through its main loop....