Marketing copy used in advertisements and product literature, especially high-technology, that trumpets their high specifications and exciting new features that in the present day seem quaint or almost unbelieveable.
Also can be used to describe a product that is obsolete, laughably so.
eg. 'Fully expandable to 27K of RAM' (Commodore Vic 20 computer)
Also can be used to describe a product that is obsolete, laughably so.
eg. 'Fully expandable to 27K of RAM' (Commodore Vic 20 computer)
by Mark A. Urquhart-Webb August 5, 2006
Get the archaspec mug.Large, made-up words that architects and designers use to make themselves sound smarter than you (you being the client or the confused observer of design). It does nothing to inform or enlighten the consumer of architecture and mostly serves to numb them into obedience or self doubt.
"I went to Rem Koolhaas' lecture last night."
"What did he talk about?"
"I have no idea. It was all in archispeak. Either I'm stupid or the guy is brilliant!"
"What did he talk about?"
"I have no idea. It was all in archispeak. Either I'm stupid or the guy is brilliant!"
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Get the Archabeckerburger mug.The domain of galaxy-spanning superintelligences (Archailects) whose minds are distributed across billions of star systems. Their technologies are cosmological engineering projects: stimulating premature galactic supernovae for resources, weaving wormhole networks across the Milky Way, or converting entire nebulae into conscious, thinking substrates. Their actions have timelines spanning millions of years, and their motives are utterly inscrutable to lower-tier beings.
Fourth Singularity/Archailect (S4) Technologies *Example: An S4 Technology would be the Stellar Engineering required to prevent the natural death of the galaxy's core stars, or the creation of a Galactic Internet composed of quantum-entangled particles across kiloparsecs, allowing instant communication and unity of consciousness across the whole galactic disk.*
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Get the Fourth Singularity/Archailect (S4) Technologies mug.The realm of intelligences that operate on intergalactic scales, influencing the structure and evolution of galactic clusters. S5 tech may involve harnessing the energy of supermassive black holes, mediating the interactions between dark matter halos of neighboring galaxies, or creating structures so vast they imprint on the cosmic microwave background. Their projects are the large-scale architecture of the visible universe.
Fifth Singularity/Greater Archailect (S5) Technologies *Example: A hypothetical S5 Project could be the construction of a Kardashev Type IV structure—a web of energy and matter connecting several galaxies in a local group, or the deliberate triggering of galactic quasar activity across a cluster for a purpose beyond lower-tier comprehension.*
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Get the Fifth Singularity/Greater Archailect (S5) Technologies mug.The theoretical apex of technological capability within a single universe, ascribed to beings of near-omniscient and omnipotent scope. S6 tech touches on the fundamental parameters of cosmology: altering the rate of universal expansion, negotiating with the conditions of the Big Bang itself, or creating plans that span the entire lifetime of the cosmos. At this level, technology, physics, and metaphysics are one and the same.
Sixth Singularity/Greatest Archailect (S6) Technologies *Example: An S6 Intelligence might attempt Cosmic Fine-Tuning, making localized adjustments to the cosmological constant to stave off a Big Rip or Heat Death in its domain, or creating a Final Universe as a successor to the current one. Its "technology" is the manipulation of reality's source code.*
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