Sphere

This book by Michael Crichton was about a bunch of scientist and navy personnels who were sent deep down into the pacific oceans to explore a vessel stuck on the ocean bed which was supposely had been lying there for 300 to 1000 years. They later found out that it was some sort of space ship from the future that supposedly travelled through time by lobbing itself around a black hole in space. On board the shuttle was an artifact of unknown origins which looked like a grey metallic egg..which they called the "Sphere". Apparently they found out in the end that this sphere provided humans with the ability to realize they imagination just by thinking about it. (after alot of deaths and distruction, which in the end left with 3 people surviving from the original 10) The problem with the sphere was it also realizes your unconscious thoughts, the part which humans have no control over their mind. Creatures from a person's nightmares were made real just with a single visualization of it in the mind., even though not on purpose. Fear was the cause of man in creating his own evils in the mind. And most man have no control over fear itself. Due to the fact that man have not and might not be able to understand him or herself entirely, or in other words cannot achieve full consciousness. The artifact became more of a dangerous mine, rather than a resource to tap in. (.....for the whole story, book is available in MMU library : )

Jumping into part of another story also by Michael Crichton entitled "The Terminal Man". Which states that in the case that any creation cannot possible fully comprehend itself. While another being of higher intelligent may. Which might not even have to be a creator. In the sense that technology might be surpassing the total intelligence of all human's added together in a decade or maybe only a few years. We see that, computers might be the being of "higher intelligence" that will be the one deciphering human kind instead. And by that time, we might be the ones having problems trying to comprehend computers when they start evolving on their own. Turning into a full matrix style explosion.