Re: Nanotechnology

SNIP

>Hmm... If ships are completely run by AI's, then they have a pretty
nasty
>weakness.  (like the episode in Dr. Who with the Daleks and the other
>robotic race in a war that's grid-locked because of the AI commanders.)
>
>					Chen-song

	They aren't that sort of AI;  they are to a large extent
self-created entities with personalities (and personality flaws).  A
large
part of their being is in hyperspace.  

I VERY strongly recommend Banks' novels even if they are mainly outside
the
FT/DSII remit.

Rob
Rob Paul
NERC Institute of Virology 
Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR	  Tel. (01865) 512361
rpaul@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk
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