'Micro'

Finished reading 'Micro', the last novel by Michael Crichton completed by Richard Preston. I feel shell-shocked! Really a terrifying thriller. My awe about science and technology has immensely augmented. I shiver at the horrors that unfolded in the novel holding ominous forecasts about the future of our world and its countries.Two characters rightly say in the end:"...with technology, once a thing is invented, it never gets un-invented.....Killer bots and micro-drones are here to stay. People will die in terrible new ways. Terrible wars will be fought with this technology. The world will never be the same." What a ghastly prediction! The black pronouncement sends a chill down the spine. Sounds stunningly true.




Another passage that found full agreement in the novel is the thoughts in the mind of one of the characters described: "These Americans played with fire. Hydrogen bombs, megapower lasers, killer drones, shrunken micro-people...Americans were demon-raisers. Americans awakened technological demons they couldn't control, yet they to enjoy the power."



An interesting travelogue on the dangerous beauty of Hawaii- loved it tremendously being the hard-core armchair traveller that I am.



Strangely my mind recalled Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. A vague connection found there!? Perhaps that political satire showed futuristic knowledge of technology unknowingly!!!