alt Hacker NewsCrichton 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.
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10729287 • today at 8:07 AM
He even wrote a non fictional book on Personal Computers back in 1983 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Life
yoyohello13 • today at 5:27 AM
It was kind of scary how prescient Jurassic Park was. Just swap genetics for AI and his warnings are incredibly applicable to modern times.
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msh • today at 7:49 AM
On the other hand he also did a ‘climate change is fake’ book (state of fear).
One of the greatest "bad" writers. On my top ten.