[extropy-chat] Warwick: Could future computer viruses infecth umans?

[Walter_Chen at compal.com]

Human virus could cause flu, VD, ...etc.
Difficult to imagine what will happen to computers if infected?
 
Thanks.
 
Walter.
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Why not? It would obviously depend a lot on the nature of the interface
itself. If the interface is sufficiently general so as to be able to
dynamically generate code, why not? 


Pretty cool, if you ask me. Ever read Cory Doctorow's short story "0wnz0red"
? If not, please do: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/.



Cheers 

NJ 


On Nov 15, 2004, at 7:03 PM, Walter_Chen at compal.com wrote: 


So human virus will infect computers also? 


Thanks. 



Walter. 

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Why not? A virus, whether biological or computer-based, is really just 

a logic machine. Such a virus would be able to cross from a digital 

logic medium to a  biological one. The effects of such a virus would 

differ depending on whether the virus is currently infecting a 

biological-system or a computer, but this is very much like biological 

viruses when they pass across species. 




On Nov 15, 2004, at 5:51 PM, Adrian Tymes wrote: 


--- nsjacobus at yahoo.com wrote: 

> Well, I think the idea is that eventually 

> computer/human interfaces 

> will consist of some sort of data-port that connects 

> directly into the 

> human nervous system. If so, then computer viruses 

> could indeed have a 

> deleterious effect on humans. 


Yes, but this is not "computer viruses and biological 

viruses becoming one and the same" even if they can 

affect the same target. 

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Nige 


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hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take
orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook
a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. 

Specialization is for insects. 


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