I read a lot of Michael Crichton novels when I was a teen in the '90s, but as entertaining as they were I always thought he was overly alarmist. Now I get it. This is exactly the combination of scientific arrogance, ambition, and incompetence he was warning about.
I read a lot of Michael Crichton novels when I was a teen in the '90s, but as entertaining as they were I always thought he was overly alarmist. Now I get it. This is exactly the combination of scientific arrogance, ambition, and incompetence he was warning about.
тАЬA crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored.тАЭ
I read a lot of Michael Crichton novels when I was a teen in the '90s, but as entertaining as they were I always thought he was overly alarmist. Now I get it. This is exactly the combination of scientific arrogance, ambition, and incompetence he was warning about.
"They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race." - Michael Crichton
тАЬA crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored.тАЭ
Andromeda Strain
I *love* that movie.
I call it the "Hold My Beer" method of scientific inquiry.