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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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