The software of the future will produce its own offspring and becapable of making subjective judgements. Clive Couldwell visits BT's labs,where the future is already being put into practice.
Whether software viruses can be regarded as a form of life has long been the subject of heated debate, and turns on the issue of whether the object under discussion is able to reproduce itself inde...
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