I belive software is everything that is not hardware, from a modified human genom to holy scripts to various types of other programmed matter.
We should think of it as something that is quite a few steps above the current use we have at this point of time. After all the processing hardware in Sirius seems to be a little bit more than what we have right now, too.
It's science fiction a few hundred years ahead after all.
' Wrote:for those who missed it: the moral of it all is ----> traders with teeth are fun for pirates. - within reason.