X-Message-Number: 14496 From: "Gary Tripp" <> Subject: re: self-extracting zipware AI 'casting Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:47:57 -0400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C0216E.AB5EA680 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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. ..... ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C0216E.AB5EA680 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14496