This novel is about the nanotechnology field and the dilemmas that we face with such technology. The main character and narrator is Jack Forman who ends up becoming an unemployed computer software engineer. He stays home to help raise the children but then becomes employed by Xymos. Xymos is a very large corporation that is learning to control very small life forms. He is married to a fellow worker, Julia Forman and they have three children Amanda, Nicole and Eric. Julia starts working a lot and coming home late that makes Jack suspect she is having an affair. She tells him she is working on some ground breaking new technology, nanobots. These nanobots, she goes on to explain, are placed in human test subjects and you can view them on a …show more content…
We are so thirsty for new, advanced technology that we are helping create self-thinking, intelligent technology. Today we have taught a computer, Deep Blue built by IBM, to play chess like a human. Deep Blue was designed starting in 1985 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania. It was designed with the help of a Grandmaster, Joel Benjamin to play chess. In just 19 moves, in 1996, Deep Blue beat the world’s leading chess player, Grandmaster Garry Kasparov. This was so astounding that Garry Kaspaorv thought that the computer had help from a team of chess players. It just didn’t seem possible that a computer could “think” for itself and come up with a strategy. After the match Kasparov wrote, “The machine refused to move to a position that had a decisive short-term advantage.” Adding “It showed a very human sense of danger.” Kasparov has previously said that no computer could ever beat him because chess has a uniquely human component to playing and no computer could simulate that. Most computer chess games are made for a computer to consider moves individually so most thought he was correct in saying that. No other computer had ever previously been designed in this