Michael Crichton 1993-08-21.mp3 - Âm thanh Lưu trữ Miễn phí

Program: Point of View

Airdate/length: Sep. 12, 1993 / 7:30 a.m. / 13 min.

Speaker: Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton

A discussion of... Criticism of his fiction as anti-science; Crichton says criticism never hurts anyone as much as a lack of criticism does. And he says his work is designed not only to entertain, but to make audiences think about the issues confronting modern science.

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More here, from Oct. 14, 2016:

Westworld, Jurassic Park creator Michael Crichton’s 1993 plea to science

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By Charlie Meyerson

Michael Crichton—the science fiction writer who created Jurassic Park, Westworld (reborn this fall as a critically acclaimed HBO series) and other tales of tech gone awry—bristled at suggestions his work was “anti-science.”

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_Michael Crichton in 2002

Photo: Jon Chase / Harvard News Office

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On a 1993 return to Chicago, where he was born, he addressed that criticism.

Before an audience at the Field Museum, he talked about the challenges of representing technology in fiction:

“My work has been critical of science in a variety of ways ever since I began. … You can either see the technology of the future as beneficial and wonderful, which often doesn’t make a very interesting story; or you can see it as hazardous and dangerous, which is what I tended to focus on.”

But he also made clear his interest in the dystopian ran deeper than just the urge to tell a good tale.

He said he had “no hope” government could serve as a watchdog over advances in biotechnology, which he said was “changing every two minutes.”

He added: “My wish would be for the scientists themselves to exercise caution.”

Crichton, who died in 2008, refused to grant interviews with reporters during that 1993 visit. But the museum made audio of his lecture available for broadcast.

And guess who saved it?

So here’s Michael Crichton at Chicago’s Field Museum on Aug. 21, 1993.