8.08: Jurassic Park—Explained

What the well-known novel and movie have to say about science, ethics, epistemology, and hubris.

Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton (and the movie!)

• Media OS—see TVTropes’ “Extreme Graphical Representation” for many examples.
• The Expanse
  • TV series overview
  • book series overview
  • Caliban’s War: the book in which “complex simple systems” appear
• Nuclear meltdowns
  • Three-Mile Island
  • Chernobyl
  • Fukushima

Note that we’ve ended up changing plans since we recorded our Kurzweil episodes! We originally planned to read Simone Browne’s Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, but decided to talk about our “background” reading so far!

• June: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, Elizabeth Eisenstein
• July: Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Brown

• “Achime” by TENGGER
• “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho

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