Ederlyn would find this cool. I tend to find it scary. My capacity for cynicism is very nearly in paranoia mode, and I cannot seem to curb it. Science is consistently blurring the lines between life and non-life. In Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson writes that the Catholic Church (paraphrasing a science fiction novel set in the future here) argued for a while and then decided that nanotech was okay as long as it was not used to interface with the human brain. I'm not sure that is the line the Church would draw. I'm really not sure where it should be drawn. I do know that it must be drawn, and that we cannot trust scientists, especially not materialistic ones, to draw the line. This isn't really nanotech, but to my mind it falls into much the same category. ars correctly draws parallels to the Terminator® series. I don't know how possible that is, it really comes down to two questions, 1)the possibility of AI and 2)the limits of human stupidity. I know not to limit the latter; Diamond Age speculates that there are limits to the former, but I question not only that assertion, but whether or not the limits would be significant enough to prevent a Terminator®.
