From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 01:30:52 MDT
Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> OTOH, I found this rather reasonable, (dare I say it, transhumanist?)
> interview with Crichton online.
> http://www.readersread.com/features/michaelcrichton.htm
> He is not ignorant about current technologies, and seems in this interview
> to be rather in favour of them. Now I'm confused.
What makes a good story is usually not the same as what makes for a good
reality. To have any kind of suspence in a story there needs to be conflict.
Crichton is just using his tools of the trade.
That is why it is hard to make good stories *for* something. It is much
easier to be against something.
So to make a story that is positive about transhumanism, you would
probably need to turn it around and make the "other side" the
antagonists. The religious fanatic dogmatists, the statists and luddites.
-- hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark http://www.futureport.dk/ Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
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