Sub-Index to Seeds of Disaster: tek

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• accounting
  • audit-tek
• acu-tek
  • explained
    • constant effort to maintain the patient at the peak of health
    • does not invert the role of technology vs civilization
    • half-way to ubiquitous health-monitoring on other Backdoor Planets
    • palm device passed over Jung meridians
    • relays data back to the patient's clinic
    • trend analysis and diagnostic tools applied
    • uses any nearby port/Em-Deh
  • Gatogrebok handed it out from the beginning
  • Gatogrebok offers
  • not standard in Popovich
  • not used on Popovich
  • transmits data back to your clinic over Em-Deh
• aero
  • air-freighter
    • tucked in its owl-like wings
  • air-liner &2
  • airship
  • MacCready sub-orbital relay &2
    • definition in dialog
• aircraft
  • maximum-left configurations
  • negotiate with the elements as it went, balancing gravity, lift, and power
  • sounded like a determined wind driving its way through a thick hedge of brambles
  • wings
    • hunched to plow the air more deeply
    • upright tips stretched back and up till they met over the tail
• airliners
  • go supersonic
• analyzer for predicting casualties
• automated cleaning of game
• automaton engineers
  • don't allow for much beyond what their macro-, micro-, and nano-widgets can handle

  

• Beobachtung
  • benefits us
  • browsing-rendering tools
    • modify to detect and report such Patterns for Failure
  • collected by patrolcraft
  • mobile
    • rectangular,door-sized frame
    • shells
    • sucked his image and gave nothing back
    • vests, matte-black
  • recorded the trial and conveyed it to the jury
  • rendered within Dain's mind
  • watch-tek
    • supporting technology for ~
  • wringing sound out of ~ data
• bicycle
  • brakes activated by stud
  • come with gyros that can be turned off
• binary digits
• Bouncin' Betty
  • definition
  • definition in exposition
• Broca-Wernicke transducer
  • clipped, as usual, into Phoebe's hair
  • definition
  • held in place by cling-tek
  • like polite schizophrenia, but with reliable information
  • used &2 &3
  • uses internal voice, light, clear, toneless
  • where Phoebe wears it
• building
  • anti-seismic strengthening
  • architectural logiciel
  • ceiling of Center for Learning
  • cisco &2 &3
    • definition
  • epox-plaster
    • floor
  • kits
  • materials
    • frame made of ceramalloy
  • Pattern Guides
    • instructions downloaded by plasterer
    • outline of ~ defined the clinic's entrance-room
  • plasterer
    • how it works
  • romex
  • wall surface electrically tricked into acting as a primitive foilscreen
  • wallpaper
    • self-generated static

  

• camou-tek
  • similar to vacuo-tek in weight, heft, and bind
  • unlawful on Yeibichai
• chiller
  • subzero section
• chyme flask
  • attaches to duodenal shunt
  • Dain uses one
  • definition
  • definition extension
  • hooks onto supporting eyes set into iliac spines of both hips
• cling-tek
  • holds Phoebe's Broca-Wernicke transducer in place
• closet
  • takes clothes from Dain's hand
• co-executors of an imprimatur
• coag
  • cipher for Ganj Dareh
  • clinic
  • Gatogrebok
  • personal
    • shatter the security
  • raw dump of
• composite-laminate bow
• cooties
• cram-cast
• crema-tek
  • in Dain's aircraft
• crypto-tek
  • public-key
  • skeleton keys
• cue/Em-Deh
• curvescreen &2
• cyber-continuum

  

• data
  • 5 dimensions to ~ (snigger)
  • connection transforms it into information
  • ghosts in the ~
  • grew according to exotic rules
  • inferences that are unreasonable yet appear by dint of too much processing power
  • tricked into information
  • types
    • character-based
    • digitized
    • formatted
    • private
    • public
    • unformatted
• defense-bots
• designing requires pattern languages
• digital signature of a domain
• drawscreen
• dreamball
  • definition
  • explained in narrative
  • lasts 2000 seconds
  • leaves you with a headache because it's louder and quicker
  • no other after-effects
  • once armed, a good bump sets it off
  • range=3m
  • shrill burp
  • tingle up Phoebe's spine from distant explosion
  • used by anshin
  • used by Tlaxtli-League Governor
  • work like dreamsticks, but at a distance
• dreamstick
  • 2-meter radius
  • 3 suppliers in the world
  • advantages over tanglefog
    • see under "tek"
  • definition
  • dreamjuice aerosol
  • each bonds to explicit constable
  • effect
    • archetypal human-replay-dreams
      • 0=the womb
        • definition in glossary
      • 3b=learning how to walk
        • definition in glossary
    • explained
    • familiar shimmy
    • voluntary-muscle inhibition
  • failure=endoware collapse
  • femtochip
    • one factory in Gagarin
    • same in all ~
  • importance to justice system
  • inducer
    • surgically implanted
    • turned on/off by encrypted ultrasonic-wave
  • just a baton now
  • Phoebe guesses they were gleested
  • rote set of moves taught to constables by the lone manufacturer's representatives
  • same encrypted link to brain
  • thing inside brain
  • used by Phoebe
  • used by Yojin Suru soldier
• drome
  • boundary-tek sets off sirens

  

• Em-Deh's routing secrets, both encoding and algorithm
• encryption
  • OK to try and break into any coag
• endoware
• enviro-tek

  

• factory's mechanical infrastructure
• fat-client
• fictoplate
• fiducia
  • password still works
  • touch-fiducia
• FIFO &2
• files and pages
• filter-tek
  • Dain ignored it on his aircraft
• firewalls
• flex-armor
  • trousers, jacket, and helmet
  • why Phoebe's combine doesn't wear it
• fluctuating multi-line graphs
• flues that flared with multi-stage scrubbers
• four-color cartography
• furniture
  • tall-desk

  

• gengineering
  • human nature remained perverse despite their careful cleansing of genes and memes
• glass
  • safety-break shards
• guide-tek
  • sending tanglefog shells toward all parts of the room
  • show the way in the dark with soft chirps

  

• hacker
  • mentioned in scene
  • use-notes
• hard-foil
• hard ping to reboot port
• hardcopy
  • flimsy, biodegradable
• harvest brain patterns -- not allowed on Yeibichai
• histograms
• Hoberman stretchers
• holo-projector
• holoscreen
  • poke finger as pointer device
• hot-cup
• hover-cart
• hyper-sonic craft

  

• ICES-pen
• in-between
  • built for widgets
  • isn't built for humans
  • shape more suggested than defined by a crosswork of metal

  

• keyspace
  • does different alphabets
  • escape zone
  • explained
  • has color
  • holoscreen can act as ~
• kinetic weapon
  • outlawed on Yeibichai
  • Thy fires one
• kiva
  • aka data silo

  

• lattice
  • far-
• linked text panel
• list of materials
• llevar within mating distance
• llevar
  • auto-locate
    • any good tactician on-duty has it turned on
  • can amplify voice
  • definition
  • for coaching
    • a lump on a shoulder
    • defined in dialog
    • used by Weir
  • inserted into body
  • patted into silence
  • personal entrance to the Mirnaya Direvnya
  • schmatte
• llevarito
  • definition
• Logical Ganj Dareh
• logiciel
  • Author-Team
    • write the software

  

• macready
  • a diaphonous airfoil, speckled with antenna, veined with infraware
  • internal pressures
  • rides the thin air like it was born to it
• macros
• mech-Techniker
  • installers left a backdoor
• med-techniker
• med-tek &2 &3 &4
  • active-cast
    • flaring-red
    • should block the pain while it works
    • worn by
      • 13'Sao-La
      • Meyer
  • anshin using ~ to tend victims
  • automated gurneys wrapped around casualties like giant raisins &2
  • carried as kits on anshin backs
  • cart
    • at café
    • foilscreen showed yellow with "Repair required" written in black
    • in Lugar's office
    • in Norma's house
    • large, soft tires fending off obstacles
    • ruggedized
      • stiff, stubby arms
  • carts provided from train-coach dining alcoves
  • carts
    • active ones are expensive
    • active ones deployed
  • chest-hugger &2 &3
    • exposes docking plate
  • doesn't care for the patient; Nurses do
  • face-hugger &2 &3
    • can patch ruptured vessels
    • flag
      • boy's name and medical history in a less demanding font
      • lifesigns documented with glaring numerals on its face
      • red ~ erupted like a grasping hand
      • scolded with a red background and glaring lifesigns slowly, but steadily declining
      • stiff red ~ popped up
      • triage-level = 1, stable, overall color=yellow
      • triage level = 0 w/white slash = don't bother
      • up
    • fluid-bags sucked dry
    • launched its red flag
    • no flag this time
    • probes
    • red flag
    • red flag changes to white
  • fatigue-scrubbers
    • explained in narrative
    • nap also suggested
    • not keeping up
    • Phoebe sends them to Kanpa
  • first-aid-tek
  • healing-sleep
  • Hoberman stretcher
  • image of caesarean scar invokes a time when human surgeons actually dared carve bodies themselves
  • left wounds to her body's own healing abilities
  • mesograph &2
  • mesograph station
    • described
  • once ~ said you were dead, nothing tek or human left to be done
  • osteo-tek
    • tendon-repair add-on
  • patients actually needed Nurses during and immediately after med-tek procedures
  • pulse-tek &2
  • stabil-tek
    • to get victims ready for transport
    see also "tek>rescue-tek" (under T)
  • start-button &2 &3
  • surgery
  • surgical kit
    • foilscreen shows success messages
  • The Tangent gengineers nano-med-tek
  • to be warped by Pizi?
  • uro-tek
    • urinanalysis
• medulla modem &2
  • hacking whine
  • its frantic noise
  • raucous carrier tone
  • used by Dain/jDub
• meeting/can-be-seen
  • Limited
• meeting
  • automaton
    • plain voice
  • Limited
• meetings
  • can-be-felt
    • "Come to order" required to start
  • can-see
    • filters out Irwin's bleats
    • used as verb
  • database
  • Limited
    • Irwin requests another one for entire Team of Partners
    • reference to Irwin's initial one
  • will-be-heard
    • floor-token
      • definition
    • forum &2 &3 &4 &5
    • Forum for Ganj-Dareh Collective
    • forum
      • definition
      • mentioned in each report by Phoebe's Ear
• message from a can
• message
  • bulletin board=floor-to-ceiling foilscreen
  • demand-response
  • dispatched into the Mirnaya Direvnya
  • llevar labels as "sent"
  • Priority List for Incoming Requests
  • receipt for delivery
  • Unsolicited Queue
• minerals make which colors in fireworks
• modal-bully
• monomol
  • shell for shipping dreamsticks/balls
• multi-spectrum, neuro-interlaced sensor blindness prosthetic

  

• nano-ferry an off-world virus
• nano-filters
• nano-scour shower
• nano-scour
  • teeth
• napkin
  • =vacuumer
• Negroponte cage
• null
  • definition in narrative

  

• opti-tek
• orbliners
  • brute power versus atmospheric resistance in geometric proportion to cross-section
  • go hypersonic
  • non-renewable, portable, high-impulse, even hypergolic fuels
  • pressurized, even vacuum-proof vessels
• ore-tek for mining

  

• paired display
• panel shows bridges
• panel shows joints
• panel shows prolixes
• Pattern Guides
  • primitive memories filled with orders for construction
  • suctioned to floor or wall
  • thick-headed electronic mushrooms
  • whacked into the ground
• peace-tek
  • clue-tek
    • anshin using ~ to examine the grounds
    • color=dull-as-ore silver
    • could tell who was coming in the dark
    • description (not used)
    • used for convictions
  • confine-tek
    • why connects to ankle
  • detention cell
    • adjusts its interior dimensions to match its resident
    • buttons
      • close
      • start
    • called "blue nap" &2
    • described in action
    • Okra wonders whether Phoebe will still let him use hers
  • detention swatches
  • hypno-verified eyewitnesses
    • used for convictions
  • ident-flag
    • shows a name and pending charges
  • Incident-Site lamps
  • plain old footwork
    • used for convictions
  • riot-tek
• ped-cycle
• personal page
  • clarion
• personal
  • auto-locate
  • one-time start-up queue
  • watch
    • Dain's implanted in his left thumbnail
• personality
  • more complicated than an agent
• photon spouts &2 &3
  • used by Kanpa
• Physical Ganj Dareh
• pocket infoplates
  • Gatogrebok offers
• policyware
  • Dain says he can bypass it
  • forwarded the proposal
  • implements Pattern Languages
• poly-recursive indirect relay
• power-grid for workplace
• primitive access
• procurement automaton
• project plan
  • Close button
  • Produce glyph
  • Send option
• proto-tek
• psych-tek &2
  • rejection of Phoebe's request to Prime-Direvnya chiefs
  • self-esteem quotients
• purge pixie

  

• qi-che
  • tells passengers it had called for repairs
• queue
  • Approve-All button
  • Forward-All button
• queues
• quota on cyber-resources

  

• record
• recumbent cycle
• recycle-tek
• regpix
• remember-me trinkets
  • Gatogrebok offers
• Request for Meeting
  • Property=Time
  • Property=Type
• rescue-tek
  • brace-tek
    • to protect rescuers from building collapse
  • dig-tek
    • to open a way to victims
  • extract-tek
    • to get victims out
  • for buildings
  • for vehicles
  • locate-tek
    • to locate victims
  • pene-tek
    • to get rescuers to victims
  • stabil-tek -- see under "tek>med-tek"
  • toxi-tek
    • to protect rescuers from toxic materials
• Ripple Paneling
• robot luggage
  • converts to manual with dip switches
  • self-moving

  

• scatter-vert
• secur-tek
• security wards
• self-propelled container
  • boxy and white
  • fat tires
  • retractable wheels
  • sides roll up
• sensor pack
  • not allowed for hunting
• sew-tek
  • ubiquitous in every su-she
• sight-tek
  • augment ambient visible spectrum
  • enhanced spectacles
  • show human-debris spectrum
  • start-button
  • Unstarted, they simply passed all visible light through
• situ
  • can provide physical location
  • definition
  • definition in narrative
  • described
    • at once a place and a capability
    • dangles from Em-Deh
    • puts out its unique contributions
    • simple and incredibly fast
    • takes in only what belongs to it
    • unique physical identifier for each device connected to and comprising the Em-Deh
  • of the relay that had restored Ganj Dareh to its place in the Mirnaya Direvnya
  • only and specific portal into Derkinit's llevar
• start-button
  • on agent-of-limited-questions
  • on Hoberman stretcher
• stasis-block
  • contains 8'Issaw's heart
• stereo-lathe
• still can't duplicate the complex coordination between mother and child
• superparamagnetic effect
  • definition
  • thwarted by Bears
• systemware
  • suspends responsibilities and authority upon proof of criminal activity
  • tall, mute boxes of an uninteresting charcoal-gray

  

• tanglefog
  • allow support data even on limited bandwidth
  • color
    • green as last week's lunch
    • green=mixed
    • green=puke-~
    • greenish
      • puddle
  • decomposes
    • faster all the time = not expected
    • half-life = 7k seconds
    • naturally iaw Fundamental Pattern
    • so hit Gastarbeiterbande again
    • so keep processing Gastarbeiterbande till we're done
  • drawbacks
    • automata depends on Beobachtung data for targeting
    • did not adjust for its victims
    • launched ballistically from Central Station &2
    • not adaptable like constables wielding dreamsticks
    • spread over the same area at the same speed every time
  • essential in supporting the anshin raid
  • fluid to dissolve it
  • inventor mentioned
  • out of the well of staff research
  • Phoebe found out about it in archives
  • rioters locked down by ~
  • shells
  • smell
    • like an infestation
    • Phoebe finally gotten used to it
    • rank
    • shattered windows had barely cut the stink
    • smelly
    • smelly as last week's lunch
  • sticks people to everything nearby
• tek-sploration
• terahertz simulations of the human mind
• torch
• tracking viewpoint in holoscreen
• trains
  • acceleration rigs
    • called "harnesses"
  • aero-smoothing skins over juncture between coaches
  • announcing lights
    • green=stop coming
    • highlighted door for departing passengers
    • indicate whether coach will take on passengers
    • red=deceleration final starting
    • yellow=deceleration final in 200 seconds
  • burst out of the ground
  • coaches
    • 10 meters wide
    • blunt back end
    • ceiling
      • emergency lighting from a stark-white surface
      • implied as extension of window-wall
      • sheer
    • count
      • normal complement=3
      • typical=10 these days
    • dining alcove
      • an abtract design in maroon
      • in rear
      • paneled in pale yellow
      • provide med-tek carts
      • servers
        • drinks both hot and cold
        • prepared foods
    • doors match to portals in drome
    • doors
      • count=7
      • stoop=rubbery square
      • transparent
    • frame of silver-gray ceramalloy &2
    • fuselage
      • half-again as long as wide
      • transparent
    • transparent fuselage
    • window-wall
      • from floor vaulting overhead
  • cruise at .8 Mach
  • cruise speed
    • just over a 280 meters/second
    • versus Mach
  • dominate travel on Yeibichai for a good reason
  • freight-car conversions
    • airy murkiness
    • back-end a blind wall
    • doors slashed into the back-wall and matching sides
    • dull-gray nose
    • no dining alcove
    • no med-tek carts
    • seats jammed into the floor in slapdash sitting circles
    • strips of light slapped across stark, dull-gray ceiling
    • to coaches as fast as we can
  • passengers
    • count
      • acceleration rigs=21 &2
      • normal complement=49 &2
  • rail
    • combination support, guide, power collector, and conduit
    • matte-black
  • rapid deceleration
  • re-arrange order at cruise speeds
  • slow se down by reversing its propulsion
• transport automata
  • they talk
• triage-tek
  • arbitrated among themselves about their casualties
  • flags
  • works with face-hugger

  

• vacuo-tek
  • worn on the moons
• vacuum-ware
• Virtual Ganj Dareh
• vision filters against the sunlight

  

• weapons
  • Yojin Suru
    • sprayed a sun-orange light
    • swept the gutters of his mind clean of thought
    • thrown like a lash
• wheel-tab
• widgets
  • macro-
  • micro-
  • nano-
• wingtip-collar microphone

  

• Yeibichai-standard data dictionary
• Yeibichai abandoned Gë's pursuit of AI

  

• zhee-tely don't like being treated by automatons