Prey, by Michael Crichton is the book I chose to cover in my final project for IS class. The book begins with Jack Forman describing his life as a stay-at-home dad, and how he never anticipated his life to turn out that way. His wife, Julia, works as an executive in charge of many business commodities at Xymos. Xymos is also where Jack used to work as a software programmer. Jack was fired due to his discovery of an internal scandal, and the fact that he never notified the company of this incident.
Jack believes that Julia is having an affair due to her recently lax personality and new-found infatuation for frequent nighttime showers. Eventually, Jack is offered his job back at Xymos's fabrication plant in the middle of the Nevada desert. He arrives and instantly notices that everyone seems on-edge and uneasy. He soon finds out that this is due to the leakage of their new product PREDPREY, which is a swarm of nano-robots designed to work as an eye for medical research. PREDPREY was recently updated to function as a military weapon/ espionage device, and became self-sustaining, reproducing, and began to hunt small creatures (like the rabbit, and rattlesnake) and eventually, larger creatures like a coyote, and even the characters!
These entries are all very enlightening. What is your analysis of these topics? How do they impact you?
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