Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The human central nervous system considered as a computing device or part of a computing device.
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- noun slang A human
brain ormind as acomputing element. Coined as a parallel tohardware andsoftware . Common in thecyberspace genre ofscience fiction . - noun The underlying
generative code for an organism, as found in thegenetic material, in thebiochemistry of thecells , or in the architecture of the body’s tissues.
Etymologies
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Examples
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We prefer to recruit post-military service personnel, as you are as a group far easier to augment with training, and upgrading wetware is much more expedient than installing it and waiting for the development of adequate proficiency.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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It's captivating enough for the casual computer user, and a must-read for anyone who cares about tech history Reboot your brain: Mucking about in the wetware is a great way to spend those long gray winter months.
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The greatest resource, willing and able "wetware", will be augmented by API's provided by YouTube, Bit. ly, SeeClickFix and others.
Ben Berkowitz: The Great Urban Hack -- Not so Lazy Sunday Ben Berkowitz 2010
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The greatest resource, willing and able "wetware", will be augmented by API's provided by YouTube, Bit. ly, SeeClickFix and others.
Ben Berkowitz: The Great Urban Hack -- Not so Lazy Sunday Ben Berkowitz 2010
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The greatest resource, willing and able "wetware", will be augmented by API's provided by YouTube, Bit. ly, SeeClickFix and others.
Ben Berkowitz: The Great Urban Hack -- Not so Lazy Sunday Ben Berkowitz 2010
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The greatest resource, willing and able "wetware", will be augmented by API's provided by YouTube, Bit. ly, SeeClickFix and others.
Ben Berkowitz: The Great Urban Hack -- Not so Lazy Sunday Ben Berkowitz 2010
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On a more scientific note, I'm guessing the burn marks are due to the wires getting smoking hot conducting all that current that otherwise would have to travel through the "wetware".
Boing Boing 2006
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The human brain's "wetware", the physical bits, turns out to be a lot less complex than we'd ever imagined, just as the arrangements and patterns within it are even more complex.
Archive 2005-04-01 Zoe Brain 2005
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The human brain's "wetware", the physical bits, turns out to be a lot less complex than we'd ever imagined, just as the arrangements and patterns within it are even more complex.
2005/04 - 2005/05 Zoe Brain 2005
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And yet, the whole idea disturbs me, with its connotations of managing nice clean packages of knowledge, away from contamination by nasty, troublesome "wetware" artefacts.
Independent Information Technology and business analysis from IT-Director.com David Norfolk 2010
mjt commented on the word wetware
I don't mind the terms software and hardware, but wetware is a bit of a stretch.
December 8, 2009
zaggan commented on the word wetware
yes very much so
December 8, 2009
whichbe commented on the word wetware
With products like BrainGate I don't think this term is all that odd. Mind apps, ya know?
December 9, 2009