Computer viruses and worms are maliciously constructed agents-fanning out, like Fagin’s boys, to cause trouble. Will there will be a criminal underclass? … Since agents are easy to reproduce, cyberspace may be flooded with billions of them; how will population be controlled? How will the law deal with agents that perform important tasks on behalf of distant, perhaps oblivious originators? Even if our agents turn out to be very smart, and always perform impeccably, will we ever fully trust them? And how will we deal with the old paradox of the slave? We will want our agents to be as smart as possible in order to do our bidding most effectively, but the more intelligent they are, the more we will have to worry about losing control and the agents taking over … The burgeoning, increasingly indispensable, programmed proletariats of cyberspace cities now live invisibly on disk drives.