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Crichton was frighteningly good as a prognosticator and futurist. Certainly for a writer with a medical degree. He fought the good fight, trying to inculcate ca
by jambalaya8 3mo ago
Crichton was frighteningly good as a prognosticator and futurist. Certainly for a writer with a medical degree. He fought the good fight, trying to inculcate caution. Most of his books (even from the seventies) hold up surprisingly well until the early 2000s. They got a bit weird by 2006. But then so did our ideas of future tech.
- yoyohello13 3mo agoIt was kind of scary how prescient Jurassic Park was. Just swap genetics for AI and his warnings are incredibly applicable to modern times.
- MrToadMan 3mo agoMuch like his earlier work Westworld which was also scarily prescient for modern times. > These are highly complicated pieces of equipment. Almost as complicated as living organisms. In some cases, they have been designed by other computers. We don't know exactly how they work.
- ricardobeat 3mo agoThat’s an amazing connection, had no idea they were written by the same person but the underlying theme is pretty consistent.
- criticas 3mo agoor The Andromeda Strain. I was on the edge of my seat for the last half of the movie as a 10 year old when it came out. The book still holds up as a medical mystery - thriller and warning of unintended consequences.
- anthk 3mo agoDolly, the cloned sheep. That was huge in the news.
- msh 3mo agoOn the other hand he also did a ‘climate change is fake’ book (state of fear).
- ablation 3mo agoThat was a really, really bad book. By that time it feels like he was a shadow of his former page-turning self.
- jambalaya8 3mo agoyeah, not one of his best. not his worst, but not great.
- flumes_whims_ 3mo agoGell-Mann Amnesia? Interestingly enough, the term was coined by Crichton.
- 10729287 3mo agoHe even wrote a non fictional book on Personal Computers back in 1983 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Life
- toast0 3mo agoAll the cool kids were writing those. https://archive.org/details/herbert-barnard-1980-without-me-youre-nothing https://archive.org/details/herbert-barnard-1980-without-me-...
- avadodin 3mo agoOne of the greatest "bad" writers. On my top ten.