I want to believe that all the many nations of the earth will apply wisdom to solve problems and work out mutually agreeable solutions to differences. I want to believe nations will not use the God given gift of scientific knowledge to foolishly build increasing powerful destructive weapons of mass destruction.

I want to believe nations will eventually learn to share benefits of technology without foolishly or naively putting their borders in jeopardy. I want to believe defense mechanisms will become increasingly emphasized as a military goal, instead of weaponry constructed purely for offensive maneuvers.

I want to believe, because judgment, and judgment alone, awaits after devastation of global thermonuclear war. Every ignorant murderous foolish act and intention leads us closer day by day.

By the grace of God, the lives of thirteen innocent people on death role in the state of Illinois were saved by DNA evidence proving beyond reasonable doubt the innocence of the thirteen death role inmates. God has allowed science and technology to create scientific techniques capable of more accurately and precisely uncovering and revealing truth.

An increase in computation power will facilitate new discoveries in nanotechnology and artificial intelligence. New discoveries in nanotechnology and artificial intelligence will provide new scientific tools capable of uncovering and revealing truth. Society has a moral imperative to continue to develop sophisticated scientific techniques that will help uncover and reveal truth in a court of law.

Santa Claus came to thirteen innocent death role inmates. In the 19th century a little girl, named Virginia, wrote a letter to a newspaper columnist asking if there really is a Santa Claus. The newspaper columnist replied with a now famous beautiful lyrical newspaper column entitled, Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

The new best selling Michael Crichton book, PREY, has become a strong voice of caution.

An except from a Wonderful Life Foundation Feature article entitled, A Peaceful Non-Violent Jihad: A Spiritual Struggle to Make the World a Better Place to Live!, is very pertinent to this discussion:

Bookmark this page now and click here to read the Wonderful Life Foundation feature article entitled, A Peaceful Non-Violent Jihad:A Spiritual Struggle to Make the World a Better Place to Live!, currently posted on the Nanodot.org online public forum.

Excerpt:

If I, as the feet, spur the horse to gallop faster, someone with helping hands, exercising a Divine mission, will pull the reigns of restraint at the proper time such that our galloping horse will reach the destination that God intends. Democracy is a distributive system that orchestrates the balance of power in such fashion as to facilitate positive constructive social progress. In this I have faith, that God will guide social progress.

Our valiant effort to create a better future can only succeed by the grace of God. Success of our valiant efforts to create a better future will be a true miracle. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. The human reptilian brain includes an innate natural instinct known to psychologist as the death instinct. We as human individuals have an innate natural tendency to quit, give up, and die.

Michael Crichton is pulling the reigns of restraint to slow down our galloping horse. The new best selling novel, PREY, is a gift to the world.

Vince Reynolds is one of the main characters in Michael Crichton's book, PREY. Vince Reynolds is a maintenance engineer. In the book PREY, Vince Reynolds poignantly pointed out, " . . .its not a perfect world Jack. Never has been. Never will be." Jack Forman, a major character who is a protagonist hero in the book PREY, philosophically pondered, "Things never turn out the way you expect".

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy:
PREY May Stymie Growth of the
Young New Emerging Science of Nanotechnology
thereby Condemning Society to be Undulated
and Perhaps Drowned by
Wave after Wave of
of Severe Socioeconomic Problems
As Related to
A Need to Sell Potential Benefits
of Nanotechnology Research and Development
to Venture Capitalist leading to Hype
and Forward looking Statements.

At this early stage, the well known cliche, "there is nothing to fear, but fear itself", may be vital to consider. People are maimed and killed daily as a consequence of working with conventional industrial equipment. We are currently exposed to deadly toxic environmental pollutants in the air we breath, the products we make, and the water we drank.

A news segment aired on 60 minutes discussed how a gasoline additive known as MTBE has created enormous environmental problems by poisoning the water supply in many regions. A huge number of people have died from lung disease and cancer as a result of exposure to a construction material known as asbestos.

Recently, food scientist warned the public that fried foods have a cancer causing agent that may pose a serious health hazard. A huge number of people have died in automobile accidents as a consequence of faulty design and manufacture of tires. Cigarette smoking and health risk posed by second hand cigarette smoke has helped fill many graveyards. Agriculture waste such as chicken manure creates toxic substances poisoning rivers and streams. Poisoned rivers and streams containing toxic substances from natural agricultural sewage kill fish and wildlife. The Chenynoble Nuclear accident in Russia points to enormous risk posed by nuclear power to society.

Given health risk posed by current manufacturing methods, danger from potential of a Nanotech intelligent swarm seems remote.

Jack Forman, the heroic protagonist in Michael Crichton?s new best selling novel, PREY, philosophically contemplated, ?. . . it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We looked at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing. Of course, we knew it was changing but we behaved as if it wasn?t?.

A prime example of change is global warming as a consequence of industrial pollutants. Industrial pollutants thin and deplete the ozone layer. The ozone layer protects the earth from scorching effects of the suns ultraviolet radiation. Global warming may be a contributing factor for dry brittle forest brush and foliage leading to enormously devastating forest fires in North American western states. Costly forest fires in the North American western states are economically devastating and ultimately drain money from the world economy.

What can we do? Shut down the factories causing industrial pollution will more than likely lead to a global spread of famine, starvation, and severe poverty currently contained within the borders of 3rd world countries.

Every moment change occurs rather we accept it or not. In the middle of the Milky Way galaxy is a massive black hole. A black hole is a dying star with a gravitational field so strong it is capable of swallowing planets, stars, and warping the very fabric of time and space. All the stars and planets contained within the Milky Way galaxy swirl around the black hole in the middle of the Milky Way.

Extremely small measurements can make a big difference. What difference will a slight subtle change of a billionth part of one meter make as our earth and sun is gradually pulled and tilted from its current location within the Milky Way galaxy? A change of a billionth of one meter may be considered a gradual distortion of planet earths physical pattern. Will distortion of the earths pattern produced by a slight change of a billionth of one meter cause more violent earthquakes, devastating tornadoes, severe flooding, deadly forceful hurricanes, and volatile volcanic activity which includes spewing red hot molten lava filling city streets and consuming entire villages, etc, etc, etc?

If mankind does not learn to practice love and compassion while trying to cooperate perhaps it will be poetic justice for the earth to be swallowed by a black hole in the middle of our Milky Way galaxy. In the epic Hollywood blockbuster movie, Ghost, dark empty demons emerged from the streets to carry the bad guys away. The epic Hollywood blockbuster movie Ghost starred Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg. Michael Crichton suggest in his new best selling novel, PREY, that the team of scientist working for the fictitious company, Xymos Technology Inc., who created an out of control runaway Nanoparticle Swarm, should have had more foresight, love, and compassion.

A well known law of thermodynamics states that ordered systems have a natural tendency to move toward disorder. Order and disorder are separate natural processes occurring simultaneously. Historical progress of modern human civilization is typically characterized by taking two steps backward for every one step forward. The well-known cliché, "take two steps backward for every one step forward", may be a truism derived from the natural laws of thermodynamics. Thus, we as a collective global civilization, move painstakingly inch by inch toward to our final destiny.

Nanotechnology and artificial intelligence should not be viewed as a cure-all solution. The development of new manufacturing methods based on nanotechnology and artificial intelligence will more than likely create an entire new set of problems.

In business circles there is a concept known as forward statements. Forward statements are promises made about future benefits of a new emerging technology that a company may not be able to keep. Forward statements are promises about the future that cannot be verified with current data. An associated press article, published in the Tuesday December 17, 2002 edition of The Courier-Journal discussed how Enron executives invented an entire new business concept dubbed "hypothetical future value accounting".

The hype surrounding phenomenal growth of nanotechnology may constitute forward statements. The concept of the forward statement is intricately entangled in the vital role of human imagination in helping scientist and engineers to design, create, and invent new products.

Over many centuries, it has been widely recognized that the human mind plays an incredible role in determining future reality and outcomes. In the classic novel, 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea, famed author Jules Verne imagined the submarine many decades before actual design and construction of submarines. People laughed at Wilbur and Ovil Wright when they announced their goal to design and construct a flying machine. People could not believe humans would ever have the ability to fly in the air like birds.

Psychologist have examined how adverse dire events can occur as a consequence of a person thinking and believing future reality will be dreadful and horrendous. Psychologist apply the term self-fulfilling prophesy to behavior of a person who creates and maintains difficult situations by thinking future reality will be a very unpleasant horrendous negative experience.

Irrational thinking about horrendous future events has no basis in reality when such events cannot be objectively authenticated or verified with data indicating probability of future danger. Fear produced by irrational thinking about dreadful horrendous future events can result in inability to meet personal goals. An inability to meet personal goals leads to disastrous consequences and dysfunctional maladapted behavior. Dysfunctional maladapted behavior leads to more real trouble and adversity.

Extrapolative data consist of observation and measurement of past events that produce real world outcomes at different points in time. Scientist make predictions about the future by using extrapolative data to calculate probability of future events. Probability of future events determined with the help of extrapolative data allows scientist to develop theoretical assertions about future events. Scientist test and retest theoretical assertions to produce more extrapolative data.

No human person can predict the future with 100 percent accuracy. Critical elements to achieving successful future outcomes are (1) Extrapolative data, (2) the God given gift of the human mind possessing ability to imagine better designs, and (3) theoretical assertions about future events that are tested and retested. For example, in the early historical development of the fairly new emerging science of nanotechnology and artificial intelligence, occurring as recently as the late 1970's and early 1980's, very few scientist believed nanotechnology will ever be possible.

One major discovery lead to another and another in very rapid session. IBM discovered the scanning tunneling probe microscope (STM). An STM allowed scientist to precisely manipulate atoms and molecules.

STM's help computer manufacturing companies design better more efficient computer chips. The design of better more efficient computer chips increased computation power. An increase in computation power sets the stage for new knowledge and scientific discovery.

Dr. Richard Smiley won the noble prize in chemistry for discovery of a carbon based molecular arrangement of atoms known as bucky balls and fullerene tubes. Bucky balls and fullerene tubes can act as transistors. Transistors conduct and regulate electrical current. Bucky balls and fullerene tubes may transform the entire electronic industry.

Now, at the beginning of the 21st century the new emerging science of nanotechnology is a successful phenomenally growing field.

In order to finance scientific research, there is a need to sell potential future benefits of new emerging technology to venture capitalist. Understandably, a novel, such as PREY, that tends to highlight and accentuate potential social risk and danger of nanotechnology research and development may generate concern within the scientific community.

Scientist may be concerned that a novel that highlights and accentuates risk may dampen interest of venture capitalist in the very young new emerging field of nanotechnology. Scientist may have legitimate concern that a novel highlighting and accentuating potential catastrophic events relating to nanotechnoloy research and development may become a self-fulfilling prophesy, thereby condemning us to be undulated by wave after wave of problems associated with current socioeconomic conditions existing today.

Scientist may be concerned that irrational fear leading toward self-fulfilling prophecy may condemn us to be overwhelmed and drowned in a vast ocean of conventional socioeconomic problems unrelated to development and implementation of nanotechnology and artificial intelligence on a grand social plateau.

A certain amount of zeal and enthusiasm must exist to sell scientific research programs to venture capitalist. Optimism generated by excitement and enthusiasm about past scientific success may translate into hysterical over optimistic hype and forward-looking statements.

Part II Prey Review:
Michael Crichton's New Best Selling Novel, PREY,
is Interwoven with Educational Concepts
Laced within a Fictional Entertaining Storyline.

The new Michael Crichton best selling novel, PREY, is very educational. As a captivated reader of the new Michael Crichton novel, PREY, I would like to share an observation about the book.

Michael Crichton displays an uncanny amazing ability to interweave complex fundamental scientific concepts pertaining to software engineering, molecular microbiology, and nanotechnology within context of a fictional storyline which contains realistic everyday naturalistic household and industrial settings most ordinary non-scientist laymen are familiar with and can relate too.

Inclusion of complex fundamental scientific concepts in a light fun entertaining context of a fictional storyline containing a naturalistic setting most people are familiar with can potentially help non-scientist laymen to digest and understand complex fundamental scientific concepts.

I should know. I am not a scientist.

I earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology with a concentration of course work in biology and computer science. I possess a very basic college level simple layman understanding of fundamental scientific concepts.

I was enrolled many years ago in college level biology and computer science course work. The new Michael Crichton best selling novel, PREY, served as a review of scientific principles I learned long ago, but have long since forgotten. For example, the new Michael Crichton novel, PREY, jostled my memory about the computer programming technique of Recursion.

Recursion is a computer programming technique of writing instructions for a computer program to continually loop back to the beginning of a set of computer code until the final answer is derived by the computer program. Perhaps, an act of relearning what I learned long ago during my college days, but have long since forgotten, is human cognitive activity similar to a recursive function built into a computer program. Thus, it can be said the new Michael Crichton book, PREY, is helping me become more intelligent by assisting me in learning about distributed artificial intelligent systems.

In the first few chapters of PREY, Michael Crichton sets the stage for suspense and intrigue by describing growing tension in the marriage between the main heroic protagonist, Jack Forman, and his wife Julie.

Julie begins to act different. Something in the marriage has changed. We watch as Jack becomes increasing suspicious while thinking and emoting about his wives odd behavior.

As consumers of fine books, we are motivated to purchase and read books that help us learn and understand something new about ourselves. A mark of an excellent high caliber novel is when external events become symbolic of deep dynamic cognitive processes.

An excellent novel helps us probe and learn about human nature. Hopefully, what we learn can help us prevent catastrophes by becoming better more caring and compassionate actively concerned people.

External tension between Jack and his wife Julie opens a window into deep human cognitive processes that have an uncanny parallel to artificial distributed systems. Jacks obsession with his wives strange behavior involves Jack expending much energy to search within himself for basic fundamental rules.

Software engineers establish fundamental rules or parameters controlling how a computer program will act or behave. Jack is searching within himself for fundamental rules that play a major role in (1) initiation of the marriage, (2) maintenance of the marriage, and (3) rules that may help keep the marriage moving forward in a goal directed manner.

Final Conclusions

The new Michael Crichton best selling novel, PREY, serves as the voice of caution.

Michael Crichton is an author most widely known for his novel, Juassic Park and creation of the highly popular television drama ER. Jurassic Park became an epic Hollywood Blockbuster movie.

A recent late night episode of ER contained an incredible highly clever special affect to hit home the idea that a subtle slight change on the sub-atomic molecular level may potentially transform the world into a bizarre pattern we no longer recognize. The late night ER rerun episode was broadcast in a dismal ghastly gray and green color.

Sub-atomic particles known as photons are responsible for emission of the color spectrum. The underlying message of the late night ER episode is that a slight subtle change to sub-atomic photons can quickly transform the world into a bizarre pattern we no longer recognize or can relate too.

I thought my television set was on the blink and started banging the box similar to the famous Happy Days television character Fonzy. It just goes to show, it would not take much to get someone like me completely confused and disoriented.

The broadcast of the late night ER episode in dismal ghastly patterns of green and grey is a clever marketing ploy to sell Michael Crichton's new best selling novel, PREY.

I highly recommend Michael Crichton's new best selling novel, PREY, currently available everywhere in fine bookstores and retail outlets. I believe the Michael Crichton best selling novel, PREY, should be required reading for students enrolled at various grade levels throughout the educational system.

If my insights outlined within this book review help promote and sell the new Michael Crichton novel PREY by developing dynamic understanding and appreciation of the storyline content of PREY, I request that a contribution be made to my favorite charitable organization, The Foresight Institute.

The Foresight Institute has a mission to (1) minimize, mitigate, and reduce potential risk and danger of new emerging technology to society, and (2) help maximize and ameliorate potential benefits of new emerging technology to society.

About the Author

Author byline and Bio: Mark Gaffney is a contributing freelance writer. Mark has earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology with a concentration of coursework in physiology, biology, and computer science. Mark is in the process of trying to start a new Not-for-Profit Foundation entitled, Wonderful Life Foundation. Mark plans to submit his online work as a thesis project to earn his Doctorate (PhD.) degree and officially become a Nanotechnology Sociologist. Bookmark this page now and click here to review preliminary plans for organizational development of Wonderful Life Foundation currently published on www.ServeNet.org. ServeNet.org, Idealist.org, and Network-for-Good.org are associated with the government web site portal, www.freedomcorp.gov, an initiative of President George W. Bush to promote volunteerism and provide services to help Not-for-Profit organizations.