shipmindとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

shipmind (複数形 shipminds)

1. An intelligent entity (either an artificial intelligence または alien) used to control a spaceship.
   • 2004, Frederik Pohl, The Boy Who Would Live Forever, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 101:

     The crossing didn’t set off any alarms or anything. I wouldn’t even have noticed it, but my shipmind, Hypatia, is programmed to notice things that I don’t, if she thinks they might interest me.

参照

• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2023), “shipmind, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.