Saturday, August 25, 2007

What is Wetware? (Rudy Rucker)

As one of the initial popularizers of the word wetware, I'm disappointed to see that over the years the meaning of the word is being watered down to mean something like a company's employees or a human brain. Like: "Yeah, we got the PCs, we got the Office software, now we just gotta hire us some wetware."

When I see people trying to reduce everything to corporate human resources issues, I think of someone giving a monkey in a zoo a crayon, and all he can draw is the bars of his own cage.


Post includes some fantastic cover art from foreign editions of Rucker's "Ware" series.

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