{"id":146,"date":"2026-01-16T18:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/?post_type=item&#038;p=146"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:06:38","slug":"prey","status":"publish","type":"item","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/item\/prey\/","title":{"rendered":"Prey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Prey<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br>Michael\u00a0Crichton\u00a0<br>New York: Harper, 2002\u00a0<br><em>Courtesy\u00a0of\u00a0Teresa Gray<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Prey<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>tells the story\u00a0of\u00a0a swarm of self\u2011replicating, rapidly evolving\u00a0nanobots\u00a0that\u00a0turn on their creators.\u00a0Crichton\u2019s\u00a0novel\u00a0merges\u00a0nanotech,\u00a0artificial\u00a0intelligence\u00a0and evolutionary biology into a\u00a0collective\u00a0apex\u00a0predator.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0one of the earliest mainstream thrillers to\u00a0treat\u00a0distributed\u00a0programming\u00a0as an\u00a0ecological threat.\u00a0Like other works by the author, Crichton weaves a cautionary tale against scientific hubris, the dangers of rushing\u00a0new\u00a0technology\u00a0development, and the need for robust safety protocols.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":69,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"section":[5],"class_list":["post-146","item","type-item","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","section-robots-ai"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/146\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}