Prey
WTH was up with that book? I just finished reading it and was it me or were there a lot of holes in the "science"/"technology" used by Crichton? If any of you are knowledgeable in the areas of distributed network processing and/or nanotechnology and have read the book, pls let me know. It seemed that for them to operate as described in his book is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too farfetched... I mean, I can understand some embellishment, but it seemed like he even went beyond the scope that he had outlined early on in his book. I mean, wtf, it was almost as if he forgot the initial parameters and just wrote some half-ass novel. Especially when I'm pretty sure he miscounted the frames per second conversion as well as the number of thermite caps... It was just... sloppiness... Bleah... Ah well, at least it was about a topic I like... and at the very least, it's got me more interested in machine intelligence and maybe the marriage of machine vision and nano/MEMS (ugh, more CCDs...), as medical imaging is an important field...
posted by whoami at 9:49 AM
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doood fiction writers aren't the most geekiest of people...
Hehehe, yeah, I know, but I found that typically his sci-fi novels are based on technology/theories that are at the very least sound, if not already worked/researched on. Like sure there's stuff that we know we can't do yet, but he usually manages to give a plausible explanation - this time, it seemed like he didn't even try. Like when the swarm developed something, the characters just basically said, "uh, yeah, they somehow learned to do that... we don't know how..." That's what I'm annoyed about...
but that might be because we don't know too much about the field so when we hear it we go sure, that sounds plausible...
but for things we know about, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense
Heheh, indeed that's prolly it
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