The first signals from bacteria communicating to fellow comrades were discovered in the 1960s. It took 60 years of research to realize the intelligence of bacteria. The first virus signal was discovered in 2017 and in the nine years since then a vast amount of information has been discovered about virus communication. Much of the research has been in phage viruses––viruses that interact with and inhabit bacteria. It is clear now that phage viruses are not making decisions ba