{"id":3342,"date":"2026-01-03T23:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/prey-crichton-michael\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:20:25","slug":"prey-crichton-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/prey-crichton-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"Prey &#8211; Crichton, Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='book-preview'>\n<h3>Book Preview<\/h3>\n<div class=\"preface\" id=\"prf\">\n<p class=\"nonindent\">\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"nonindent\">Within fifty to a hundred years, a new class of organisms is likely to emerge. These organisms will be artificial in the sense that they will originally be designed by humans. However, they will reproduce, and will \u201cevolve\u201d into something other than their original form; they will be \u201calive\u201d under any reasonable definition of the word. These organisms will evolve in a fundamentally different manner\u2026. The pace \u2026 will be extremely rapid\u2026. The impact on humanity and the biosphere could be enormous, larger than the industrial revolution, nuclear weapons, or environmental pollution. We must take steps now to shape the emergence of artificial organisms\u2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><em>\u2014Doyne Farmer and Alletta Belin, 1992<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"nonindent\">There are many people, including myself, who are quite queasy about the consequences of this technology for the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><em>\u2014K. Eric Drexler, 1992<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"nonindent\">Within fifty to a hundred years, a new class of organisms is likely to emerge. These organisms will be artificial in the sense that they will originally be designed by humans. However, they will reproduce, and will \u201cevolve\u201d into something other than their original form; they will be \u201calive\u201d under any reasonable definition of the word. These organisms will evolve in a fundamentally different manner\u2026. The pace \u2026 will be extremely rapid\u2026. The impact on humanity and the biosphere could be enormous, larger than the industrial revolution, nuclear weapons, or environmental pollution. We must take steps now to shape the emergence of artificial organisms\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr style='margin: 30px 0; border-top: 1px solid #eee;'>\n<p style='text-align:center;'>Read the full book by downloading it below.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/download-is-starting\/?url=https%3A\/\/mega.co.nz\/%23%2111gDTS6b%21ztrBf7UO7I_U_SVNampWahPSOZ1DI_yx-iJi_DdRX-8' class='download-btn' target='_blank'>DOWNLOAD EPUB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Preview Within fifty to a hundred years, a new class of organisms is likely to emerge. These organisms will be artificial in the sense that they will originally be designed by humans. However, they will reproduce, and will \u201cevolve\u201d into something other than their original form; they will be \u201calive\u201d under any reasonable definition &#8230; <a title=\"Prey &#8211; Crichton, Michael\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/prey-crichton-michael\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Prey &#8211; Crichton, Michael\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-michael-crichton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}