Prey

Under suggestion of my friend Marco, I’ve read Prey, a Michael Crichton book. This book tells (very shortly) about an unemployed AI expert, Jack Forman, called to solve a problem with a program developed by him and applied to a population of nano-agents (the swarm) developed by a company in which works also is wife, Julia. The story is a warning about possible risks related to most active research fields of this years: nanotechnology, distributed artificial intelligence and genetic.
Altough it’s never too technical, the book is interesting also for people with computer science knowledge; I believe that the author has pretty well understood topics narrated, considering also book bibliography.

Definitively a story for both computer science expert and not, written in a very pleasant way.