Michael Crichton : on the future

[@chetanpun3117]

Time stamp: 6.22 “…actually the thing that I worry about most is epidemic disease.” Mr Crichton called it in 1999, of what may happen. And it happened in 2020. Rest in peace Michael Crichton. You are always remembered.

[@realitycheck1086]

except that this was a lab leak and nowhere near as deadly as it was advertised to be

[@zyzxxinfinity]

My favorite author. He was absolutely BRILLIANT. He made me realize how science fiction often becomes science NON-fiction, and how certain apsects of science and technology are best left to ponder and not bring to reality.

[@maryfay53]

You are wrong. When you graduate from medical school you receive an M.D. degree, which Dr. Crichton had and was given from one of the top rated medical schools. He did not practice medicine, but he could have. However, there is a time limit wherein he had to be apply for certification, which he never did. He choose not to be called doctor, but that doesn't change the fact that he was one. I'm a doctor. I assure you, so was he.

[@arjunkaul]

One of my favorite authors. Great gift for storytelling.

[@LookMaNoBrains]

"Sphere" is one of his best work. IMHO

[@dinodan7770]

The greatest author ever. He really inspired me a lot in life

[@OutdoorsWithJosh1990]

This man changed my life with your master work Jurassic Park

[@OutdoorsWithJosh1990]

God bless you Michael

[@cmt320225]

He changed mine with his autobiography “Travels.”

[@joseph_b319]

Same here

[@shawnwilliford1788]

Love Michael Chrichton. Such a genius. I read most of his books. My favorite....congo

[@movraptor]

terrible comment. "I read most of his books" 1 no one cares 2 he's dead 3 really no one care 4 Congo is arguably one of his most boring and uneducated books "My favorite....congo" you try and create this anticipation for your answer reveal even though any one who can read this already SEES your answer and then you don't even CAPITALIZE the name of the damn book so no one knows what your talking about. screw you Shawn, screw your 4 year old comment, stick to reading Dr. Suess

[@tracywilliams7929]

He was prophetic! Notice how he sights epidemic disease as his biggest worry about the future. Twenty years later it has happened as he said it would. The 2019 pandemic was like his Andromeda Strain. I wish he were alive today to comment on this plague and calm everyone down with his sanity.

[@joshuak4223]

Crichton’s stories changed my life. The world lost a great man; would love to hear his thoughts on the state of the world now.

[@simonpepper9721]

What's the book where nano tech escaped the lab?

[@joshuak4223]

Prey?@@simonpepper9721

[@simonpepper9721]

@@joshuak4223 I think that's it,cheers,you got a free paperback copy with the Sunday telegraph years ago. Thanks mate.

[@alexmclaren9159]

10.46 He mentions an epidemic. This guy was so far ahead of his time. Respect.

[@kg7219]

I mean not to take away from his legacy or whatever but scientists have been predicting smth like that for a long time. Like roughly every 100 years we have a global pandemic … remember world war 1?? Like 1917 ish was when the Spanish flu happened…

[@TwilightTruebahdoor]

Hollywood has lost it's creative zeal, afraid to take risks. Movies are a dying art. I think virtual reality will replace them. In the meantime, personal video creating and sharing will continue to proliferate as an art and be more accessible and of interest to average adults and kids.The visual arts are going back into the hands of the people, not the movie moguls.

[@foreverfavorite]

what an amazing author. he did such a spectacular job on his novels.

[@adamJKpunk]

He predicted it all.

[@TheBlackDeath3]

I've got as big a soft spot for Crichton as the next guy. He introduced me to adult writing in my preteen years. However, 0:42 was a big miss. And movies dying out? Certainly not literally, and I think there are plenty of smaller budget films still being made. Obviously the guy was quite prescient in a number of ways but omniscient he was not.

[@br7anjc8]

Mr. Crichton is a pure genius. It's too bad that cancer got him. Way too early

[@nVolodimer]

Power of foreseeing at 6:20, a really smart guy, my favorite writer.

[@mandrakar]

Thanks for this video, RIP Michael.

[@carnevil5740]

Spot on! Grabbed the State of Fear from my Moms books! You are a Hero! Wake up America 🇺🇲

[@rsmania01]

read the book 'sphere'

[@christopherrobbins9985]

From the 6:40 mark. How prescient. RIP Michael Crichton...one of the great American fiction writers of the 20th /21st century.

[@Cable3999]

He was a very good author. I read some of his books. My favorite was "The Great Train Robbery".

[@ThePhobosAnomally]

This video was published 6 days after his death.

[@d.l.918]

PhobosAnomaly Yes, read beteen the lines. His tragic, sad but also overwhelming overacted laufh when talking about disease is a hint. Look up what he dug up and wrote in the medical field. As long as you still can.

[@In-N-Out333]

“Certainly in terms of books...nothing much is going to change.” He didn’t predict ebooks.

[@burnsloads]

You mean audiobooks accessability

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

He couldn’t be any more right on the money! You will be missed! I also love your movies, not so much the Westworld series on HBO!

[@adamJKpunk]

He basically laid it all out exactly how it happened, genius.

[@movraptor]

no he was wrong on many points actually. Idk why i'm responding to an 11 year old comment but why is this 11 year old comment the first thing I'm seeing? why do intelligent people have to even see comments of uneducated internet sloths there should be a filter

[@MyMarko84]

MY FAVORITE AUTHOR!

[@BluDevil93]

RIP Michael. For some reason I always thought he looked a lot younger than his years......

[@robertgibbs7513]

I would have loved to hang out with Michael Crichton seem like an awesome dude if it wasn't for him writing the Jurassic Park novels we would have never gotten the movies

[@movraptor]

No shit this is the most redundant comment ever. according to you is water wet?

[@robertgibbs7513]

@@movraptor I don't got time for your BS go somewhere you ain't got nothing better to do than start s*** with somebody I don't have time for jackasses like you

[@valerielopez9075]

I love this MAN

[@double1967]

Visionary... He has answered this question before and his answer was one word "Bladerunner"

[@Sodeggy]

I love his books. He was a great storyteller with lots of outside information.

[@smashthestateX]

Dr. Chricton pretty much nailed everything in this interview. people making videos = youtube. epidemic = sarss, swine flu. i have always been skeptical about people prediction the future, but I would not question anything that Dr Chrichton says.

[@galaxydeathskrill5607]

He even predicted covid too

[@theforestero]

''quite common for people to be upset about changes''. me, too

[@Swaynze33]

the great train robbery is a great classic, cant wait for pirates latitude, 6 more fucking days though

[@svd348]

10 years later and we have the Kindle. But it may take awhile for that to really catch on.

[@robertdseals1]

I agree most predictions never happened, but if you look at star trek, many of those did. Self opening doors, hand held communicators, wearable, voice activated computers, language translators...

[@Atticus102788]

Science fiction is always waiting to become reality. Because it takes time to develop the technology, but the idea is there. Look at Arthur C. Clarke's work.

[@JDMcHenry]

A brilliant mind!!

[@lindsaymccutcheon]

3:20 was awesome!

[@thesupplantor]

I'm pissed off with the new youtube layout. So I hate change too. >:(

[@CineRecon]

they guy predicted alot, not exactly, but he was definitely in the ballpark

[@phsal5182]

thank you!

[@NicholasOsto]

Factor in exponential increase... we shouldn't be able to predict 20 years if someone 100 years ago couldn't predict today.

[@PrideDragon1]

Amazing.

[@mandrakar]

learning means nothing if its not about having the rightest behaviour

[@renee-mariekrug1889]

Does it fill you with fear and loathing, or fear and dread or hopeful anticipation? Me,I am still assessing the situation ...

[@nottrash9034]

"Oh kids today" lmao us Millenials are slipping right into that role

[@Cable3999]

John Michael Crichton

[@HAYLO_TWO]

his greatest fear for the future of his children was epidemic disease...

[@ChemicalOly]

Google has entered the chat.

[@alaynagoll2992]

6:30 predicts coronavirus

[@yetbarekasrat-geez9211]

Coronavirus is a pandemic but still

[@cyberzonie]

RIP Michael

[@ColdPillowz]

@davidopoulin I wonder how you feel about the World Wildlife Foundation's new .WWF file format, then, and what about its implications for the future of legal proceedings, provability, and individual freedom...

[@NOBOX7]

thanks for posting this i was wondering how he died

[@adamJKpunk]

@ 2:00 he predicts youtube.

[@NOBOX7]

how did he die bro ,,, did hillary clinton kill him

[@spanishprisoner]

@crossdresser07 there is a difference in reverse engineering or to decode the genome..... as to program it.

[@mandrakar]

Yeah i know him, just wondering why you were typing his full name, anyway great writer yes

[@boojig]

heh, except the part about paper mediums... not long left

[@davidopoulin]

@cyclotane I'm a big fan of his work as well, but he's dead wrong on the "paper will remain" issue. Digital book sales have just begun to outpace paper. Also, his take on movies is wrong (so far) about big Hollywood movies. No surprise though, as the man said so many times, "No one can predict the future". Fun stuff nonetheless.

[@HenrySoderberg]

It seems dangerous to not question anything that someone says, don't make people into god figures.

[@ConspiratorialReport]

The Andromeda Strain is dry af

[@ChemicalOly]

Covid19 has entered the chat.

[@mandrakar]

yes?

[@giantsrock99]

Did you catch that, he said "Buy n' Large paper will remain (0:52)" BNL paper will remain! BNL's going to take over the world! Quick someone get WALL-E!

[@yoloswag6242]

Steve Jobs was a good man. rip

[@chrissertich6197]

Avogardro’s number

[@scottekoontz]

This non-scientist knew nothing about climate, but had no problem pretending he did.

[@CBHarvey]

To the extent he was a trained Medical Doctor, he could arguably be considered a scientist. He studied climate prediction models, and had no problem questioning the pretenders. He asked great questions that pissed off every worshiper.

[@imranq9241]

Wow the predictions are dead on 20 years later: Paper books vastly outsell ebooks, Dictionaries and encyclopedias are completely accessed via digital now, "kids to make videos with shorter content" = KZbin, Consolidation of markets is true especially in tech

[@smashthestateX]

@JETZcorp actually thats true, religion is still very high in percentage, but hopefully slowly across more generations and generations human can reach a more secular society. i think its the fact that children are brought up indoctrinate is a very hard thing to break out of. as long as parents dont force their religion i can see this transitioning happening sometime in the future!

[@JETZcorp]

@cyclotane That's something to hope for, but unfortunately at least in the United States it would appear as though the advancement of science has made very little impact on religiosity as a whole. The fact that the country is NOT at an all-time low in terms of religiousness as a percentage, bears this out. However, I would say that perhaps on the whole people are taking it a lot less seriously as the more ridiculous bits get exposed in their ridiculousness, and that will probably continue.

[@NoEcologyNoEconomy]

I don't trust global warming deniers as sages. You can't ignore the physical world in the human predicament. His kind treats nature as an externality that can be endlessly manipulated without consequence. But the human economy is a child of nature, not its parent. Money-worshipers have that backwards. I think the best thing he did was "The Andromeda Strain," which I liked as a movie.

[@brucec43]

Keep worshipping your false religion.

[@jimmyc2016]

Global warming deniers ? 😂 you’re a government drone