The Top 5 "Crazy" Michael Crichton Ideas That Actually Came True

Given the recent death of best-selling author and sci-fi pioneer Michael Crichton, we thought it was the perfect time to reflect on some of his most innovative and fascinating ideas...that just happened to have come true. 5. Talking Gorillas: Congo (1980) was more than just another notch into the decent-book-cum-awful-movie belt. It also highlighted what was once a novel concept: that apes could use human language to communicate. Cute little Amy, with her sign language glove (which appeared in the movie but not the book), was loosely based on Koko the gorilla, whose actual linguistic abilities continue to be debated. Since then, there's been Kanzi, a bonobo who "apparently has learned more than 3,000 spoken English words and can produce (by means of lexigrams) novel English sentences and comprehend English sentences he has never heard before." Granted, those who doubted before remain unconvinced. 4. Self-Replicating Robots: In Prey (2002), Crichton ...