http://desicritics.org/ Superior South Asian bloggers on Culture, Media, Politics, Sport, Business, and Technology. en Copyright 2006 by the authors Mon, 7 May 2007 13:10:54 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss BC custom software http://desicritics.org/2007/05/07/055139.php#comment-175341 Is the movie of the same name based on this book? 175341@desicritics.org Mon, 7 May 2007 13:10:54 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/05/07/055139.php#comment-174950 Diganta, The problem is who draws the line and enforces the ethics? Corporations are on the lookout for profits, but who control them? Am, I liked most of Crichton's work. But <i>Next</i> was a disappointment. I guess his age is taking a toll on him, or whatever.. I do agree, that anything can be misused, but that should not curtail the growth of science. Unlike Jurassic Park or even State of Fear, his views in Next seem too disconnected. And so badly written, that I really wonder if it is the same guy who wrote Jurassic Park! 174950@desicritics.org Mon, 7 May 2007 07:46:23 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/05/07/055139.php#comment-174851 Kishore - you know who I hate the most? Poseurs. Crichton is a decent writer with a great imagination that he backs up with good research. The problem is, he's slowly becoming one of those writers who markets his imagination as reality. Somebody (I just can't remember who) once said that there is no such thing as imagination - we just twist reality and call it imaginative. But it <i>is</i> a twist on reality, not reality itself. Crichton isnt saying anything new. Science is always disturbing when you sit down and examine it. It's just that one man's disturbing is another man's fascinating and eventually, hopefully, it'll benefit all of us. Take the example of vaccines. Good thing, right? Saves millions of lives. But those same cultures can be used in bio-terrorism. Or let's look at a very real example - planes. Good deal: cuts travelling time to a fraction of what it used to be, it's a marvel in more ways than one. But it extracts a tremendous toll on the environment and can be used as a weapon. There are millions of such examples. What's the alternative? People bitch and moan about Dan Brown making stuff up. They should pay more attention to this guy. 174851@desicritics.org Mon, 7 May 2007 06:18:50 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/05/07/055139.php#comment-174848 Human beings are not messing up with science - Human ethics is slow to catch up with science. While science is talking of manipulating humans, ethics is still in the era of humanity - taking human as a base. Science has proved human beings are nothing but a set of chemical components working togather - where ethics is yet to trace that. 174848@desicritics.org Mon, 7 May 2007 06:07:55 EDT