Skip to main content

fleshware 

If you perform a complex function (e.g. software) using people rather than machinery (hardware), the people who carry out the function are fleshware.
Nobel prizewinner Richard Feynman's describes designing a fleshware 'super-computer' made of punch card machines and human calculators to do the complex calculations needed to design the atom bomb at Los Alamos.

There are many other instances in pre-computing era organizations where complex calculations were carried out by rows of nerds with pencils and papers. Earlier implementations include vast libraries of medieval monks acting as printing presses by writing out manuscripts and pairs of sailors (often duplicated for accuracy) acting as speedometers and sonar by casting knotted lines behind the ship, timed against one or more sand hourglasses and leaded lines below it for depth.
fleshware by supercomputerguru August 1, 2011
Related Words

Flashwad 

Rock climbing term used to characterize ones's strenuous effort put forth into a single climb diminishing all of one's strength and energy. Generally flashwad is achieved on the first attempt of a climb but is also accepted if one's entire wad is blown on any given attempt.
Tomatoe: I can't climb anymore today.
Jbone: why?
Tomatoe: I totally flashwaded swept away and my energy is depleted.

Jbone: woooord???
climbing

fleshware 

First they thought it was a hardware problem, then they said it was a software problem. Eventually they figured out it was a fleshware problem. (eg. the person using the computer made a mistake)
fleshware by Lutie October 23, 2007
Penis, Dick, Cock, Meat, Lob
Suzy loves sucking men's Fleshwand
Fleshwand by Valeria Messalina November 19, 2016