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The impact of nanotechnology in our lives
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The impact of nanotechnology in our lives
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Prey
The book I read was titled Prey. It was written by Michael Crichton, who has written many other knowledgeable books. This book is all based around the idea of human curiosity and carelessness. The book has an insert where Michael talks about how these concerns addressed in the book are concerns in real life. The book talks about how nanoparticles accidently let into the air caused some unexpected and deadly consequences. The topic of the book affects me because it gave me some insight on what it was like to deal with situations like that. Also, I hope it allows everyone who reads it to see that we need to be more careful and think of long term results instead of just short term fixes.
Before reading this book, I thought that situations
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like this were impossible and that it was all made up. Clearly, I was wrong. The whole book is based off of the fact that humans are curious and will go through certain measures to fulfill their curiosity, and that humans tend to not think long term, and they seem to only care about themselves and their cause. Now, this is something that we cannot control, because it is just a [part of who we are, though some control and resolve their issues better. We see this trend throughout the whole book, from Julia kissing the kids, and Mae bringing back samples of the rabbit. Why these things happen no one knows, but it does most certainly happen. Without those human characteristics, there would be no need for this book. Before the book even begins, before the story unfolds, the author goes on talking about how these issues are real. He says that nanotechnology has been around for a small amount of time now, and that it is a worthy cause, But he also says that it’s dangerous. He says that the environment is constantly changing, adapting, to the world around it. It is never not evolving. He mentions real life issues about lethal viruses accidentally let out by Australian scientists. That topic is of a similar topic of this book. I honestly believe that when this technology comes out, we will have to be very careful. I believe that we will have to be smart and cautious in what we do. But I also believe that hopefully it will be good for us. I hope that it will allow us as a species to make advances thought once impossible. Do it safely, because if anything like this happened in real life, that would not be good. The setting of the book was in California, as well as Nevada. A main portion of the story happens in Nevada in the barren desert at a fab plant. We first meet a character named Jack who is a stay at home dad, and Julia his driven wife. Jack was a computer software programmer, before getting fired. Julia is currently the vice president of Xymos corp. This is a company that deals with nanotechnology. They were trying to build a camera that could be used to see things in the body never before visible. To do this, they took nanomolecules, these very very small objects smaller than a strand of hair, and grouped them together like a swarm. This was very efficient. We soon find out that Julia has been acting very different, almost like she was making a case to take custody of the kids.
Jack didn’t know what to do in this situation, but all the while he suspected that his wife was cheating on him as well. Jack calls his sister Ellen to get her opinion, but in the process she ends up deciding to come down and stay with them for a while. Jack seemed hesitant but grateful for the company because Julia was never home anymore, she was too busy working at the fab plant for Xymos. When Julia hears that Ellen is coming over, she decides to leave work early. When she pulls in, Eric the middle child says he see someone in the cart with her, but when she walks through the door, she is alone. After dinner, julia abruptly leaves, but as Jack sees her pull out, he sees the figure of a man in the passenger …show more content…
seat. All is forgotten momentarily though when just five miles down the road Julia has been in an accident causing her to swerve off the road. That night at the hospital, Julia mumbles to Jack that whatever he does he cannot go to the fab plant. Jack dismisses her as being crazy from the drugs. Though soon after, he gets the offer to be an off-site consultant for ymos. He is to be working at the fab plant for a day or to consulting them in the process of making the nano cameras. He accepts the job against Julia's wishes, and prepares to go to the plant the next day. Once he arrives at the plant, he meets up with his former co-worker Ricky. Ricky shows him around the plant and explains everything they do there. He also says that they are actually building these cameras for the army. He says the army wants these so they can spy on the enemy and not have their cameras shot down, because each part of the camera is actually an independant nanomolecule. This comes as a surprise to Jack obviously because it is opposite from what he formerly knew. It was after Ricky said this that he told Jack about the issue they were having. Apparently, one of the air vents was incorrectly made and was letting out byproducts of the system, and this had been going on for days. This posed a serious threat. Basically, the nanomolecules were adapting and had created swarms that were deadly and couldn’t be controlled. The swarms were attacking animals and killing them. The biggest issue was that they could learn and adapt to any problems faced, and they never ran out of battery or power. They wanted Jack’s help because they software they used was software he had written called Pred Prey. The idea of this software was that each individual responded to the others around it, and there was no central leader. Also, the software made it so the nano cameras acted as a group or swarm. What we see throughout the next few chapters is that Jack sees the swarm in action.
He sees it kill a rabbit, and he learns that there are at least three swarms now, if not more. Jack goes out into the open with Mae, a cop-worker, to inspect the animal, because he does not believe that the swarm had actually done this. What he sees is that the animal is in fact dead, and that there are nanoparticles left over in the rabbit’s throat and stomach. This implies that the swarm had choked the rabbit, but as to why is unknown. During this process, Mae had to run inside to grab some more tubes, and Jack was left out there alone. But then the swarms make an appearance. They attack and almost kill Jack. Soon after that point, Jack decides that he needs to take out these swarms, and him and Mae come up with a way to do it. The supplies he needs though are in the shed which is outside. Jack also thinks that he should do it at night because the swarms are supposed to run out of energy without sunlight. Had this been the case, they would have been inactive scattered in the ground, an easy target to take out. On there adventure out to the shed, two people die. ThoughE that night, they follow the swarm out to their “hiding” place and plan to destroy them. The nanoparticles are still active, but they manage to destroy some of them. Once back to the plant, Mae and Jack find out that Charley has been killed from what seemed to be the swarm that was left inside him. Later on though after
watching the security tapes, Jack and Mae know the truth. They find out that Julia has indeed been cheating, with Ricky no less. Also, they find out that Julia is somehow withholding the swarm within her, and she has the ability to breathe it out into other people. That is how she killed Charley. They learn also that Ricky and Vince, the janitor also have this ability. Jack goes on to form a plan with Mae to end all of what had been going on. Eventually, the plan succeeds, the only bad part being that now Ricky, Vince, and Julia are dead. The book closes off saying that Jack had to make the kids sick because Julia had kissed them, giving them the swarm inside the. He said he was worried, and that he was uncertain what the future would hold. I really enjoyed this book, and I think it had some amazing content. I liked how it made some real world issues come to life in a suspenseful thrilling way. I would highly recommend this to anyone looking for a thrilling read. This gave a great deal of information on how careful we need to be when doing things like this in the best way possible.
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