wikipediaにexocortex
wikipediaにexocortexが載った。exocortexはSF小説に使われていたり、それに相当するものが描かれている用語で外部脳のように働いて人間の脳の活動を助けるシステム。広く言えばラップトップ・コンピュータもexocortexかも知れない。
An exocortex (speculative) is an external information processing system that augments, in a subtle and seamless fashion via a brain-computer interface, the brain's biological high-level cognitive processes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocortex
So, this weekend, I suffered a sort of minor stroke in my exocortex. The girl and I left for a bit to get food on Saturday afternoon and, when we got back, I found my PowerBook making grinding / growling noises from the general vicinity of its hard drive. A reboot or two later, and the poor thing stopped bothering to spin up the drive and just sat there in blinking confusion looking for a System folder.
http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2005/07/05/exocortex_stroke
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