Jargon Alert: Direct from the Video Game Universe
July 22, 2020
I scanned a write up called “Who Will Win the Epic Battle for Online Meeting Hegemony?” The write up was a rah rah for Microsoft because, you know, it’s Microsoft.
Stepping away from the “epic battle,” the write up contained a word from the video game universe. (It’s a fine place: Courteous, diverse, and welcoming.)
The word is “upleveled” and it was used in this way:
Upleveled security and encryption. Remote work sites, especially home offices, have become a prime target for a surge in cybersecurity attacks due to their less hardened and secure nature.
A “level” in a game produced the phrase “level up” to communicate that one moved from loser level 2 to almost normal level 3. That “jump” is known as a “level up.”
Now the phrase has become an adjective as in “leveled up.”
DarkCyber believes that the phrase will be applied in this way:
That AI program upleveled its accuracy.
Oh, and the article: Go Microsoft Teams. It’s an elephant and one knows what elephants do. If you are near an elephant uplevel your rubber boots. Will natural language processing get the drift?
Stephen E Arnold, July 22, 2020
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