Abstract
Applying 21st century technology to the design and development of a hypothetical extra-terrestrial colonisation programme, we reimagine ‘directed panspermia’ from the perspective of Crick and Orgel's ‘technological society’, 44 years after the publication of their original landmark paper.
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