📚 Trying out a re-read of Jurassic Park since we’ve been enjoying the movies and I haven’t read it since at in when the movie was first released.
Crichton’s introduction laments the infiltration of commercial interests into university scientific research, focused on individual greed and failing ethics. It doesn’t mention the interplay of university research funding and patent law that led to a push for commercialization of research and tech transference in the 1980s, the era Crichton is talking about here.
Reading Jurassic Park is difficult as a lapsed academic than it is as a middle schooler.