From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Fri Sep 08 2000 - 09:35:46 MDT
Michael Wiik wrote:
>
> "Waldemar Ingdahl" <wingdahl@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The WW4 will be fought inside people's heads, over
> > the ideas that they value or discard. It will probably not come to armed
> > fighting,
>
> I'm thinking that WW4 will involve armed conflict, and will be fought
> inside people's heads and over values. Picture brain-cruising nanobots
> firing torpedos and energy weapons at each other.
John Barnes' _Kaleidescope Century_ has an interesting take on this, a War of
the Memes, which are not memes as we know them, but actual programs that can
jump from electronics to optical and biological circuitry, and which fight each
other for dominance of the earth.
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