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It’s amazing what an incredibly prescient work of science fiction Jurassic Park (the novel) really was. Before CRISPR, before Dolly, before the Human Genome, Cr
by ramesh31 4y ago
It’s amazing what an incredibly prescient work of science fiction Jurassic Park (the novel) really was. Before CRISPR, before Dolly, before the Human Genome, Crichton called it.
- jl6 4y agoThe 1982 paper that inspired Crichton to think about ancient insects in amber: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.215.4537.1241 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.215.4537.1241
- drcode 4y agoYour comment supposes that (1) not a lot of people were talking about the idea back then and (2) that we have made significant progress in cloning extinct animals I think a lot of people were talking about the idea back then and also we've had very little progress since then (despite flowery "news" articles like OP)
- dclowd9901 4y agoOne can’t help but wonder how much the movie influenced the work
- russdill 4y agoIt's an idea that's been around a long time. Even the specific idea of a dinosaur park with cloned dinosaurs is not novel to the novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cursed_Earth_(Judge_Dredd_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cursed_Earth_(Judge_Dredd_...
- ramesh31 4y agoThis is fucking awesome, thanks.