Michael Crichton RIP
Richard Fernandez remembers:
He both loved knowledge and mistrusted our belief to completely apprehend it, his works often portraying “scientists and engineers as arrogant and closed-minded to the potential threat a technology represents”. . . . His theme wasn’t so much “no, we can’t” but that the arrogant and self-satisfied couldn’t. Life was always a surprise, insusceptible to diktat. Perhaps his aversion to hubris was the reason he preferred the parable and the pseudonymous word. As the Times notes, he secretly wrote his first novels during his internship under the pseudonym ‘Jeffery Hudson’. That was his first secret. Now we know his second.