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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