The story
From info- + -morph. Coined in Charles Platt's 1991 novel The Silicon Man, where it refers to a single biological consciousness transferred into a computer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A virtual body of information that may possess emergent features such as personality. Full definition →
From info- + -morph. Coined in Charles Platt's 1991 novel The Silicon Man, where it refers to a single biological consciousness transferred into a computer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.