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globalized controlling networks, which The Diamond Age refreshes by pushing these wetware webs into the domain of socialist and cognitive fields.

La era de La Era del Diamante: simulaciones cognitivas, wetware en enjambre y ciberespacios socializados como la esencia del postcyberpunk

Rucker's Wetware offers perhaps the most relentless ridicule of the Chandleresque, systematically satirizing all the basic elements of the hardboiled detective formula.

Marlowe in mirrorshades the cyberpunk (Re-)vision of Chandler

But you really don't need much more than a phone, he says, because "the most important piece of hardware is your wetware.

Social Engineering 101. (Tech Forum)

Meme theory thus smacks gratifyingly of director Ridley Scott or novelist William Gibson, of the fashionably gloomy sci-fi depictions of wetware mergers of human and machine, or the neo-religiosity of Neal Stephenson's cult bestseller Snow Crash, with its sly conflation of the categories of virus, drug, language, program, and religion--all now understood as different ways of describing the same meme invasion, the same alteration of post-Babel consciousness.

VIRAL CULTURE

An LSD-inspired Beatles song was all that parsed in my own `sixties-vintage wetware, until the penny dropped.

Virtual nappies

The soulful, asynchratic warmbloods of the Tropics and Southern Hemisphere are people whose crania contain wetware as potentially capable of massive information processing as our own.

The best of all possible worlds

Is it a new form of conflict that owes its existence to the burgeoning global information infrastructure, or an old one whose origin lies in the wetware of the human brain but has been given new life by the information age?

What is information warfare?

The user, affectionately known as wetware, interacts with online services through reading and typing, and by using menus and a mouse to send directions.

Cruising the information highway: online services and electronic mail for physicians and families

One of the arguments put forwards by proponents of the technological singularity is that silicon has a significant speed advantage over our brain's wetware, and this advantage doubles every two years or so according to Moore's law.