From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Aug 21 1997 - 19:33:18 MDT
At 04:59 PM 8/21/97 +0200, Anders replied to my silly post:
>> My God, Anders, that's it! We must forestall the goo problem with sex!
>Hmm, I still think you have a point. Maybe we should let our
>nanosystems have sex occasionally to gain better immunity for
>themselves or their descendant systems from nanoinfections.
>Pedigree toasters?
No, wild toasters, surely. Louche toasters with a roguish gleam in their
eye. Toasters with hybrid vigour. Surely the pedigreed kind will lose out
in the contest, effete and over-refined as they are? Damned mewling feeble
white-bread toasters...
Damien Broderick
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