I.B.M..............................the company that hired..................a scientist credited with discovering the butterfly effect.........one that was born in Poland...................and one also credited with Chaos theory............something u see in Mike C. book "Jurassic Park"............

Nanotechnology, the newest and least familiar of the three, aims at producing molecule-sized robots that can manipulate matter at the atomic level. (Its name comes from nanos, the Greek word for dwarf.) To date, nanotechnology has been more science fiction than science; despite much research and federal funding (a billion dollars over the last two years), it so far has to its credit mainly stunts, like forming the I.B.M. logo out of 35 argon atoms. Yet its boosters promise that within the next few decades, fleets of invisibly tiny nanobots will be doing all our work for us, repairing damaged cells in our bodies to make us immortal and converting our garbage into foie gras. They will also be manufacturing copies of themselves, and therein lies a danger: what if the little things run amok and start transforming the entire world into a pile of gray goo?

Nano-techies spend plenty of time worrying about the gray-goo scenario. But as an alarmist peg it is too trite for Crichton's purposes. It would make a lousy movie. (In fact, it already has made a lousy movie: ''The Blob.'') Presumably, that is why he brings in the two other technologies, genetic engineering and computer-based artificial life. ''What all three have in common is the ability to release self-replicating entities into the environment,'' he observes in his introduction. When they are merged, there is no telling how horrific the unintended consequences might be.