- programmers, nanorobotics, reproduction, evolution
Prey is a novel by Michael Crichton, his thirteenth under his own name and twenty-third overall, first published in November 2002, making his first novel of the twenty-first century. The novel serves as a cautionary tale about developments in science and technology; in this case, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and distributed artificial intelligence. The book features relatively new advances in the computing/scientific community, such as artificial life, emergence (and by extension, complexity), genetic algorithms, and agent-based computing. Fields such as population dynamics and host-parasite coevolution are also at the heart of the novel.
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- Author
- Michael Crichton
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 464
- Publisher
- Plaza y Janes, Harper, Blessing Karl Verlag
- Editions
- 65
- Language
- English, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780007153800
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