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Michael Crichton and Computers

by adefa on 8/20/15, 6:24 PM with 57 comments

  • by kohanz on 8/20/15, 6:32 PM

    Thanks for posting this. Crichton was my favourite author when I was a young boy (I still remember how engrossing Sphere was for me) and to this day I had no idea that he tried his hand at programming.
  • by melling on 8/20/15, 7:22 PM

    Michael Crichton once intentionally plagiarized George Orwell while at Harvard and got a B-

    http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/george-orwell-got-a-b-at-...

  • by thorin on 8/20/15, 9:21 PM

    If you want to find out more about him read his book Travels, is a very interesting take on an autobiography type novel. Its one of my favourites but I don't know anyone else who's read it.
  • by hyperbovine on 8/20/15, 7:27 PM

    This site is weirdly reticent about the fact that he's been dead for years...
  • by sperling75 on 8/20/15, 7:30 PM

    Which of his books were pioneering or futuristic in how they showed people using computers ?
  • by Zikes on 8/20/15, 6:58 PM

    I remember when someone posted here their javascript project demonstrating how you could make ads and modals pop up when the user's mouse left the page. There were a lot of comments about the potential for abuse, but ultimately it was decided that like all science it could not be inherently evil.

    Still, I sometimes wonder if they feel any remorse.

  • by mattgodbolt on 8/20/15, 6:34 PM

    There's a typo in the heading "Chrichton" should be "Crichton".