Michael Crichton : on the future

Q&A from March 1999.

Theme: What will the future be like?

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Michael
• Crichton
• Future
• History
• SF
• Sci-Fi
• Medicine
• Technology

[cyclotane]

Dr. Chricton pretty much nailed everything in this interview. people making videos = youtube. epidemic = sarss, swine flu.

i have always been skeptical about people prediction the future, but I would not question anything that Dr Chrichton says.

[tiecuando]

Mr. Chricton had a problem with authority, I like that. It's too bad he's dead now, I would have loved to ask him if he was influenced by Paul Fayerbend.

[TheDrawingLab]

@cyclotane Crichton isn't a doctor. He graduated from Harvard Mecical School, but he never took his boards.

[purplecartoonist]

@cyclotane Dude. The black plague killed a third of the population. Sarss and swine flu aint shit.

[Entropy56]

Mr. Crichton had a problem with left wing fear mongering, authoritarianism, and cultural Marxism. I like that. It's too bad he's dead now. I would have loved to ask him if he was influenced by the US Constitution.

[billy1212ist]

Ratio & proportion-remember it from school? Well Michael's,1899:1999,make's ours 1899:1999::2011:2111.So what would make people think your crazy? To say what? One earth government? No more currency,everyone BAR CODED at birth (invisible to the eye)? space travel common? Condo's on Mars,and Space Station Cities?Travel in other dementions?Use of 6th,7th,8th,senses?....What man did 1899 to1999,WOW.But one thing has not changed since day 1, Greed.war,lies still there in 1999,still there in 2111 ?

[qzink82995]

and they'll bitch about the food! bahaha miss you Crichton

[XxGypse69xX]

Its funny to see how is prediction about youtube came true, seeing how we're watching him on youtube.

[zyzxxinfinity]

My favorite author. He was absolutely BRILLIANT. He made me realize how science fiction often becomes science NON-fiction, and how certain apsects of science and technology are best left to ponder and not bring to reality.

[ColdPillowz]

@davidopoulin

I wonder how you feel about the World Wildlife Foundation's new .WWF file format, then, and what about its implications for the future of legal proceedings, provability, and individual freedom...

[fullclip16117]

He basically laid it all out exactly how it happened, genius.

[davidopoulin]

@cyclotane I'm a big fan of his work as well, but he's dead wrong on the "paper will remain" issue. Digital book sales have just begun to outpace paper. Also, his take on movies is wrong (so far) about big Hollywood movies.

No surprise though, as the man said so many times, "No one can predict the future".

Fun stuff nonetheless.