mindwaren.
/ˈmʌɪn(d)wɛː/, U.S. /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌwɛ(ə)r/ 1.
a. (As a count noun.) A product which affects or improves one's mind. rare.
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1977 Washington Post 3 July h5/2 The Peace Pill [sc. PCP] is now recognized as the most insidiously dangerous of the underground mindwares.
b. Material (esp. books) which provides mental stimulation.
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1990 Seattle Times (Nexis) 11 Dec. c5 Not all Christmas gifts for computer users fall into the categories of software or hardware. Some are mindware..which are better known as books.
1991 Success (Nexis) Feb. 73 What you need are tools for the mind—mindware.
2. Computing. Software which closely imitates or interacts with the human mind; an artificial intelligence or virtual reality program.
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1983 ICP Software Business Rev. Oct.–Nov. 34/1 Mindware helps managers come to decisions based on synergistic interaction between the mind and the computer.
1984 Computerworld (Nexis) 12 Mar. 18 Another area stressed by Zachman was the development of what he called ‘mindware’. Included in this category are computer-aided intelligence, artificial intelligence, knowledge-based and expert systems, inference systems and computer ‘advisors’.
1990 Seattle Times (Nexis) 18 June f1 William Bricken..is working on new software he calls ‘mindware’, to define and control cyberspace reality.
1991 H. Rheingold Virtual Reality ix. 211 Certain consortium members would have specific mindware projects... The first products were planned to be virtual classrooms for both the physically and learning disabled.
3. A person's mind, esp. intellectual faculties or thought processes, regarded as variously analogous to computer software. Hence in extended use: human intelligence or expertise, esp. seen as a commodity.
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1987 R. Malcolm in Information Managem. Adv. Airborne Weapon Syst. (AGARD Conf. Proc. No. 414) k1 A triumvirate exists between our mindware, which is the mental circuits we possess, our mindset, which results from training and experience, which is used to sense and present information to the operators of modern machines.
1992 Jrnl. Computing in Childhood Educ. 3 323 With the inductive power of the expert system they learned to think more logically and, in the process, developed new mindware in their cognitive structure.
1995 Machine Design (Nexis) 11 May 53 Maintaining modern, high-tech manufacturing is important, but ‘mindware’—educated, motivated people—is critical.
1999 Education (Electronic ed.) July He debates the issue by centering around the concept of mindware, information and processes that enable people to learn to solve problems, make decisions, understand complex concepts, and better perform intellectual tasks.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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