Growing
Smaller
By Caron Carlson, eWeek, November 25, 2002
In "Prey," Michael Crichton's latest
novel, to be released this week, the master of technology-run-amok
visions sets his sights on nanotechnology and describes a horde of
bacterium-size machines that break out of a lab and evolve into
flesh-eating, self-reproducing predators. While even experts in
nanotechnology consider it "so new that it barely exists," the science
already sparks widespread alarm among environmentalists and disarmament
proponents, not to mention science fiction writers....
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