Re: Nanotechnology

>Alex Williams wrote:
>> 
>> Nanotechnology and wargaming don't really mix well, despite initial
>> thoughts because once you have nano, there exists no real /reason/ to
>> go to war for the most part over resources and if, for some reason,
>> you /do/ want to wipe out/kill/destroy someone else, its always
easier
>> to craft a self-reproducing nanoagent to be delivered and start
eating
>> them alive and converting them into things you need than to send
>> soldiers, tanks, etc to do the job.

Then again, the war between the Culture and the Idirans in Iain M.
Banks' 
great "Consider Phlebas" is due to a clash of ideas rather than a
scramble 
for resources, and this also has major effects on the _way_ the war is
fought.

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