｢ARTIFICIAL LIFE｣ Inspired by the behavior of computer viruses, scientists are wondering how sophisticated a computer program or robot would have to be before you could say it was “alive”. One computer-software company, Maxis, has marketed a whole line of simulated animals, ant colonies, cities, train systems and even a planet-like organism called Gaia. #サイバーパンク #CYBERPUNK

｢TURING POLICE｣ British mathematician Alan Turing predicted in 1950 that computers would someday be as intelligent as humans. #サイバーパンク #CYBERPUNK

｢CYBERNETICS｣ Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. was designing systems for antiaircraft guns when he realized that the critical component in a control system, whether animal or mechanical, is a feedback loop that gives a controller information on the results of its actions. He called the study of these control systems cybernetics (from kybernetes, the Greek word for helmsman) and helped pave the way for the electronic brains that we call computers. #サイバーパンク #CYBERPUNK

｢DYSTOPIA｣ Utopia’s evil twin. Merriam-Webster defines it as “an imaginary place which is depressingly wretched and whose people lead a fearful existence.” #サイバーパンク #CYBERPUNK

｢CYBER｣ Used to mean something completely different in the late 90s. Cybering was an online conversation between a guy pretending to be a girl, and another guy pretending to be a girl, neither admitting that the other guy was pretending.. The 90s were a different time dude, it was the £#©king Wild West back then. Nowadays, we attach the word CYBER to innocuous things like trucks and Mondays. A dignified progression in the course of human evolution.. #サイバーパンク #CYBERPUNK

｢DATACOPS｣ Any department or agency charged with protecting data security. Most notoriously: the Secret Service, whose ‘90 Operation Sundevil launched constitutionally questionable predawn raids on computer hackers in a dozen cities and provoked global outrage in the #CYBERPUNK community. #サイバーパンク

｢MICROSOFTS｣ Without apologies to the software company by the same name, Gibson has his fictional characters alter their reality by plugging into their brain these angular fragments of colored silicon, which house a read-only-memory chip. #サイバーパンク #CYBERPUNK

｢COMPUTER VIRUS｣ The cybernetic analogue of AIDS, these self-replicating programs infect computers and can destroy data. There are hundreds loose in cyberspace, although few are as destructive as the Internet virus — which is now classified as a “worm” because the writer of the program did not mean to do damage. #サイバーパンク #CYBERPUNK

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｢PORTABLE SIMSTIM DECKS｣ These simulated stimuli machines are what television might evolve into. Rather than just watching your favorite characters on TV, you strap some plastic electrodes to your forehead and experience their thoughts and feelings (e.g. the adrenaline rush, the despair of defeat, hope, etc.) — slightly edited, of course, to spare you the headaches and hangovers. #サイバーパンク #CYBERPUNK

｢FLAME｣ Sociologists note that, without visual cues, people communicating online tend to flame: to state their views more heatedly than they would face to face. #サイバーパンク #CYBERPUNK

｢BRAIN IMPLANTS｣ Slip a microchip into snug contact with your gray matter (a.k.a. wetware) and suddenly gain instant fluency in a foreign language or arcane subject. #サイバーパンク #CYBERPUNK

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. #サイバーパンク #CYBERPUNK #いぬ

｢CYBERSPACE｣ SF writer William Gibson called it “a consensual hallucination… a graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system.” You can get there simply by picking up the phone. #サイバーパンク #CYBERPUNK

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