Anyone read "Prey" by Michael Crichton, I suggest the scientists read that before they go any further

Chris, Blackpool, UK

10,000,000 Euros from watching "The Minority Report" and writing it up as a preposal? Wasted money?

The sad fact is that european projects generally require 50% matched funding from industrail partners. They then charge themselves out at double consultancy fees thus reclaiming their funding and get the research for free

Yovil, Lancashire, UK

Professors come out with a load of spiel and then you never see them again until the steering committee come along once every 6 months to check on the project (yep, i've been a researcher!)

They are really best described as glorified visionaries / salesmen. It sounds like hes hammed this idea up to the funding committee to secure funding.

This project sounds like nothing more than a feasibility study. I can picture the scene in 3 years time in some presentation room:

There will be four guys in suits watching with bemusement as two long-haired researchers switch on a dozen robots which vibrate around the floor in random circles until they jam up against the skirting board.

Then they will show some computer rendered videos of what should of happened. The steering committee will leave and pronounce the project a successful piece of research because they won't want a failure to disperch their name.

European money - so much is still wasted.

Ian, Manchester, UK

We do not need to go to bee swarms or ant colonies for we are such.
The human being is a co operation of many parts, that through evolution have progressed together to replecte as a single entity. We are an asemblage of cells and bacteria whos purpose has changed over time to support a single unit and we are the most homicidal thing on the planet.
Out of such things great science fiction cinema is made and will they unblock my drain?

robert everitt, wolverhampton,