© Aguilar-Rivera 1 a [Giselle Aguilar-Rivera Ms, Noyce English 9-4 \ March 14, 2017 Warnings about Science & Technology in Jurassic Park In the past, and even now, there have been many different warnings about many things including both science and technology. It’s been told in many different ways like people eS generally make these types of predictions es always all over TV, movies, and maybe even radio stations. The most common place people will find these warnings are hidden within the science fiction gente type of things. “Science fiction’s always been a kind of first level alert to think about things to come.” (Steven Spielberg) The idea here is that science fiction has always been one of the places where warnings about the future have been, the ideas of wa ot what'll happen and the different things that would be expected to see. Michael Crichton’s ao Jurassic Park is a great example of how this tends to be true, He discusses the different warnings about s ientists who 1ce and technology. He wams the audience that, like in reality, there are I to see, or even focus more on the results of their projects and completely f nore, the possible Po Os consequences to them, It’s not until disaster happens that one acknowledges the consequences, ar " the aftermath of that, there's a realization that in order to not have something be unsuccessful / }Whave to know deeply about what itis that’s about to happen, rather than not knowing at all In today’s world, there are scientists who focus more on the results of their projects, in some cases its money, and don’t really care for the flaws it may contain. Jan Malcolm had theAguilar-Rivera 2 perfect statement to confirm that this happens: “I'll tell you the problem with en; neers and op ~ scientists... Scientists are actually preoceupied with accomplishment... they don'tdoit, someone else will. Discovery, they believe is inevitable, So they try to do it first™ (Crichton 318), When relating this to the real world there j“new inventions coming out and becoming ‘extremely popular, then weeks after they start having issues with it and it becomes news al a around more about the failure rather than the success. It’s pretty straight forward that when aoe OES scientists are in a working progress they are “preoccupied with the accomplishment,” meaning ~ @\. rey se they think it'd be an something impossible, but once they get it it could Ives homes tt nfl a they're more focused on the re Its. They try to do something first be over time, The choice of words used by Crichton gegen, strong statements about the problems with engineers and scientists. After a chaotic event there's times when people have to realize that what they did wasn’t right, they need to be told what should happen before a big project so it won't turn out bad in the end. After the problems Jurassic Park had been destroyed Grant had managed to make a point out of it: “You sold investors on an undertaking you didn’t fully understand. You were part owner of a business you failed to supervise. You did not check the activities of a man whom you knew from experience to be a liar, and you permitted that man to screw around with the most . wt dangerous technology in human history,? (Crichton 417¢3he mote people sow ou he iad ote : w they are dealing with, the less chaos would happen, (the lis of things named involved facts about y-4 What need to be done or that before anything major starts happening. It's just a showing of people out there ignoring every variable there is just so they can accomplish one thing and become well known over it. When listing those variables it’s just more a reminder than anything, reallyil ‘Aguilar-Rivera 3 Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park is a science fiction book that shows, and warns, the audience about future events in the fields of science and technology. It is a great example of how in today’s world, there are scientists who focus more on the results of their projects and what they would achieve rather than focus on the consequences to them. Scientists try to be the first to do one thing because they think discovery is inevitable, even if the results aren't as good. 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