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IA: Intelligence Amplification. Technologies seeking to increase the cognitive abilities of people.

IDEAL IDENTITY: An internal model of our personality as we wish it to be; the person we seek to become [Max More, Extropy #10].

IMMORTALIST: A person who believes in the possibility of, and who seeks to attain, physical immortality [Max More, Extropy #10].

IMMORTECHNICS: Collectively, the technologies which are applied to attempt radical life extension, such as calorie-restricted dieting, cryonics, uploading, etc. [Mark Plus, July 1991]

IMP: Electronic implant, especially in the brain. [Ron Hale Evans]

INACTIVATE: Non-living but not dead (in the latter's permanent sense). A person in biostasis, or one subsisting in data storage, awaiting downloading. [Max More, 1989]

INFOGLUT: A state of voraciously gathering information, with little or no care for its quality or relevance. Often infoglut develops when an information starved person finds a dense source of information, like the Internet. Closely related to information overload, but more insidious since the victims think they actually profit from it.

INFOMORPH: An uploaded intelligence, or information entity, which resides in a computer. See Charles Platt, The Silicon Man, p.109. [1991]

INFORMATION-THEORETICAL DEATH: A person has reached information-theoretic death if a healthy state of that person could not possibly be deduced from the current state. The exact timing of information-theoretic death depends on presently unknown details of how the brain works. The current best estimates put it several hours after clinical death. Definition from the glossary in the Cryonic FAQ by Tim Freeman.

INLINE UNIVERSITIES: (as opposed to online universities), nanocomputer implants serving to increase intelligence and education of their owners, essentially turning them into walking universities [Max M. Rasmussen]

 INTERFACER: A person who acts as an interface between virtual corporations or other net-based organizations, and the physical world and its local economic rules. [Robert Ingdahl, December 1995].

INTERNALNET: An information network inside a living body, for example between nanochondria, bionic implants or external wearable computers. [Ken Clements 1996]


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2000-03-11