Prey
About this book
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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Contains: [Prey [1/2]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28766164W) [Prey [2/2]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28766161W)
Also contained in: Reader's Digest Condensed Books
Subjects
- agent-based computing
- artificial intelligence
- artificial intelligence in fiction
- artificial life
- artificial life in fiction
- bedrohung
- biología molecular
- biología molecular
- biólogos
- biotechnologie
- cautionary tale
- ciencia-ficción
- ciencia-ficción
- complexity
- distributed artificial intelligence
- e. coli
- emergence
- evolution
- fiction
- fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction
- genetic algorithms
- genetic engineering
- grey goo
- host-parasite coevolution
- human test subject research
- imaging technology
- isotopes
- menschheit
- methane
- molecular biologists
- molecular biologists in fiction
- nanorobotics
- nanotechnologie
- nanotechnology
- nanotechnology in fiction
- nevada in fiction
- novela
- open library staff picks
- phange
- population dynamics
- predation
- programmers
- reproduction
- roboter
- science fiction
- suspense fiction
- symbiosis
- technology
- thermite
- vida artificial