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...Valley start-up. Xymos builds tiny nanorobots that possess no intelligence of their own but can assemble themselves, insect-like, into swarms capable of solving complex problems, reproducing and even evolving. Since the thoughtless hubris of scientists is Crichton's Big Theme, all this must go terribly wrong. A nanoswarm gets loose in the Nevada desert and starts killing people. It falls to Jack to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Swarmed Over | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

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