" The Late Fred, the reluctant hero of this story, is based on my master's Degree Supervisor, Fred Welbourn. A most demanding teacher of my entire education, who taught me to 'Think' and write and to ably 'pick the bones out of the slightest arguments, who I'm sure would have loved to tackle the intellectual and social challenges of present times; Space & AI international competitions, that have become the dominant issues of our time! But we're long before his time! But that wouldn't have bothered him because, besides his academic erudition, he was amazingly intuitive, with his wry skill for -reading his opponent's 'Body language, which he always conducted wearing his famous 'Cambridge Don'sSmile"! Were he still with us, he would have shown the opposition that the concept 'artifi cial intelligence' is something of a misnomer, perhaps more appropriately 'supplementary information', and certainly not anything like the idea of 'intelligence', that he would regard simply as a human faculty.