杰克在硅谷一家电子媒体公司担任程序设计部门的主管,他主要从事智能体程序的编写,并小有成就。在发现了公司的违法活动后,由于不愿同流合污,杰克被解雇。因为原公司的谣言,杰克一时在硅谷难以找到工作,不得已他做起了全职爸爸,暂时在家照顾三个吵吵闹闹的孩子。杰克的妻子朱丽亚却事业有成,她是艾克西莫斯技术公司的副总裁。这家公司正在研发一种运用于医疗实践的尖端纳米技术,如果这项技术成功,公司将会获得巨大效益。朱丽亚负责这个项目,她野心勃勃,为此几乎付出了全部时间和精力,连家也顾不上了。渐渐地,杰克怀疑妻子有了外遇,而事实上问题要严重得多。 朱丽亚在一次车祸中受伤,艾克西莫斯技术公司邀请杰克去位于内华达州一个沙漠中的秘密试验基地帮忙。原来朱丽亚负责的项目的试验出现了问题,一群纳米集群逃出了实验室,它们迅速进行智能进化,并按照杰克曾主持编写的“掠食猎物”程序成功运行。失去控制后,它们变成了现实世界中的可怕掠食者。纳米集群不仅在行动上像个掠食者,而且不断地自我复制,开始追杀沙漠中的动物,当然它们对人也不放过。 当杰克发现纳米集群的强大能量时,他意识到它们的威胁远不限于沙漠中孤立的试验室。而且更可怕的是,杰克同时发现,这里的问题绝不仅仅是技术失控,事件的背后隐 Jack was head of programming at an electronics media company in Silicon Valley where he was primarily involved in the preparation of the applet and had little success. After discovering the company’s illegal activities, Jack was fired because of a reluctance to cooperate. Because of the rumor of the original company, Jack was hard-pressed to find a job in Silicon Valley at one point, forced him to start a full-time father and temporarily take care of three noisy children at home. Julia, Jack’s wife, has a successful career. She is the vice president of Axis Moss Technologies. The company is developing a state-of-the-art nanotechnology to be used in medical practice, and if the technology is successful, the company will benefit enormously. Julia is responsible for the project, her ambitious, almost all the time and effort to pay for this, even the family can not attend. Gradually, Jack suspected his wife had an affair, but in fact the problem is much more serious. Julia was injured in a car accident and Axalmos Technologies invited Jack to help with a clandestine pilot in a desert in Nevada. The trial of the project originally carried out by Julia had a problem. A group of nano-clusters escaped from the laboratory. They quickly evolved intelligently and successfully ran the program “Predator” which Jack had presided over. After losing control, they become terrifying predators in the real world. Nano-clusters not only act like predators, and constantly self-replicate, began to kill the animals in the desert, of course, they do not miss the people. When Jack discovered the power of the nanoclusters, he realized that their threat was far beyond the isolated lab in the desert. And even more frightening is that Jack also found that the problem here is more than just technology out of control, hidden behind the incident