X-Message-Number: 14496
From: "Gary Tripp" <>
Subject: re: self-extracting zipware AI 'casting
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:47:57 -0400

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Damien Broderick's idea is similar to one I found in the science fiction novel 
"Assemblers of Infinity"  
/gary


>... Fire ahead a stream of, say, very fast low-mass nano von Neumann devices
>with redundant minimal information, able to build assemblers once they find
>a source of convenient construction materials and abundant energy, which
>deploy a receiver able to instantiate the signal that's being sent in their
>direction. .....


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