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hardwired

a. 1 (context electronics English) designed to perform a specific task. 2 (context electronic communications English) Of devices, closely or tightly coupled. 3 (context computing English) Having a fixed placement (on a screen format for example.) 4 Not changeable. 5 In humans and animals, genetically determined, instinctive behavior, as opposed to learned behavior.

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Hardwired (novel)

Hardwired is a 1986 cyberpunk science fiction novel by Walter Jon Williams.

Hardwired (film)

Hardwired is a 2009 American science fiction film directed by Ernie Barbarash, written by Mike Hurst, and starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Val Kilmer. The film was released on direct-to-DVD in the United States on November 3, 2009.

Hardwired (song)

"Hardwired" is a song by heavy metal band Metallica, and the first single from their 10th studio album, Hardwired...to Self-Destruct. The song was released to the radio and for digital download on August 18, 2016.

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A hardwired hook sniffer: What edge will cut through the commodified wash of minute-15 Will-Have-Beens?

He had never believed the die-hard psychobiologists who had insisted that the aesthetic judgments which underlay sexual attractiveness were genetically hardwired so that the idea of beauty and the appearance of youth were inextricably tied together.

The charter is hardwired into my systems, so in effect I have as much to fear from the police as a human.

As soon as the infant can see, it recognizes faces, and we now know that this skill is hardwired in our brains.

Broadhead has provided me with a hardwired, built-in database, I do not cease to exist when you dismiss me, you know.

This means that after Jeremy had been brought into MAPHIS as an infomorph, he and Leo both had their own kind of privileged access: Leo's being hardwired and theoretically unassailable, Jeremy's being more vulnerable but carefully hidden in huge chunks of program code.

Some of them had even been equipped with voiceboxes and a small hardwired lexicon of useful phrases, triggered into vocalisation when external stimuli satisfied biochemically programmed conditions.

But then she realized the pilot wasn’t calling her on the normal hardwired landlines used for communications throughout the city.

They depended on reality as a basis for judgment, reality as perceived through direct sense experience, vetted by hardwired expectations.

He noted the markings and design, the extra firepower, and, particularly, the astromech droid hardwired into the left wing, tootling happily.