Sunday, February 24, 2013

1983 Michael Crichton Interview - The Coming Computer Revolution


Michael Crichton discussing his book Electronic Life on the Merv Griffin Show in 1983:



Many thanks to the reader who brought this to my attention!

3 comments:

  1. Great find! How naive it seems to us now! And how wonderfully polite and lethargic TV was back in those days.

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  2. Any news about Crichton's?:
    - Heart Transplants and the Press, New Republic, 25 May 1968
    - Greater Expectations, Newsweek, 24 September 1990
    - Conventional Wisdom, House and Garden, November 1990
    - The Happiness Report, Self, August 1991
    - Is Biotechnology Creating a Monster?,
    Business and Society Review, sping 1992
    - Time for Tough Talk in the Land of the Setting Sun, New York Times, 10 August 1992
    - Installer Hell, Byte, September 1993.

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  3. here's another MC video, about Westworld

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bh5Z1pbYfw

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