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To: Red Scouser who wrote (2558)	3/19/2001 9:07:34 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 104191

Hiya Red, the feeling about Liverpool is that the contrast between 'Away to Lazio' and 'home to Derby' is sufficiently stark that the players can't keep motivated... but the mark of a truly leading side is that they don't waste any points, and win every match they can. As you say, time will tell. Meanwhile, here's a cheery thought from Bill Joy (co-founder and chief techie at Sun), for all you nanotech fans... I know it was a few months ago, sometimes I'm a slow reader <g> Joy is concerned less with the notion of "thinking" machines -- a subject that has always inspired fierce debate within the computer science community -- than with the notion of fast and loose software design practices working their way into the physical realm. "A robot doesn't have to be conscious to be dangerous," he says. "All it has to do is be a species and be capable of evolving. Once it can evolve, we really can't predict what it's going to do." .. just as biology has come to mimic computer science -- so too has software evolution become more biological in nature. Computer viruses, worms, denial-of-service attacks, these are the unforeseen tradeoffs that come with an explosive new medium. The prospects become even more chilling if you apply this same mischief in the physical world. If molecular-size robots are to be designed with the same looping or recursive programming techniques used in today's software designs, what happens when bugs, whether accidental or deliberate, produce runaway outcomes? upside.com ts@iamnotabot.com