Diversity is valuable if something goes wrong. [With global communications like the Internet,] we’re taking down all the barriers, and I’m not sure that’s a good thing.
Predictor: Crichton, Michael
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for The Seattle Times, Deirdre Donahue interviews successful novelist Michael Crichton, a man known for using his great knowledge of science and politics to weave fiction that carries a great deal of truth. Donahue writes: ”In traveling around the world, Crichton espies another disturbing trend: the disappearances of diversity in the sense of different languages, different cultures, different peoples. ‘I think it’s depressing that there’s a McDonald’s at Singapore airport and a Gap on every street in the world … Diversity is valuable if something goes wrong.’ With global communications like the Internet, ‘we’re taking down all the barriers, and I’m not sure that’s a good thing.’ He also laments the lack of diversity in thinking. He finds political correctness, ‘an intolerant movement.'”
Biography:Michael Crichton, an extremely successful novelist (“Jurassic Park,” “Prey”) based much of his popular fiction on his study of real-world science and technology trends. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: September 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Seattle Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Return to Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton’s ‘Lost World’ Suggests a Bad Attitude Killed the Dinosaurs and that Humans May Be Headed Down the Same Road
Quote Type: Direct quote
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Arts and Entertainment Page E3
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney