Most Important? Hmmm.... Believe it or not, I think it was probably "Jurassic Park". As an engineer and a science fiction buff, it's nice to imagine a beautiful, spotless future where we can all get along and travel space together on a huge spaceship and live the life we'd all like to live. Jurassic Park was, for me, the first Science Fiction that was based enough in reality to scare me. Here were people.. being people. In the end, alot of the characters were pretty bad stereotypes, but the idea that, because we're humans, we're fallible, we screw up.. that the new world could be as screwy and screwed up as the old one really hit a chord. This was before I knew what the internet really was. In alot of ways, the internet has proven that point. Time and time again, the internet helps connect us to the best we can be.. and the worst we can be. Jurassic Park probably helped to shape alot of my viewpoints on science, that things like Cloning may be a Really Bad Idea (tm) and should not occur just because we could.
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Date: 2005-04-26 01:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-26 01:35 pm (UTC)Hmmm....
Believe it or not, I think it was probably "Jurassic Park". As an engineer and a science fiction buff, it's nice to imagine a beautiful, spotless future where we can all get along and travel space together on a huge spaceship and live the life we'd all like to live.
Jurassic Park was, for me, the first Science Fiction that was based enough in reality to scare me. Here were people.. being people. In the end, alot of the characters were pretty bad stereotypes, but the idea that, because we're humans, we're fallible, we screw up.. that the new world could be as screwy and screwed up as the old one really hit a chord.
This was before I knew what the internet really was.
In alot of ways, the internet has proven that point. Time and time again, the internet helps connect us to the best we can be.. and the worst we can be.
Jurassic Park probably helped to shape alot of my viewpoints on science, that things like Cloning may be a Really Bad Idea (tm) and should not occur just because we could.