Jurassic Park

Work Title: Jurassic Park
Medium: Film
Episode Title:
Year: 1993
Writer(s): Michael Crichton
"Original" Writer: Yes Writer(s): David Koepp
"Original" Writer: Yes Own work?: Yes
Summary:

Huge advancements in scientific technology have enabled a mogul to create an island full of living dinosaurs. John Hammond has invited four individuals, along with his two grandchildren, to join him at Jurassic Park. But will everything go to plan? Especially when one of the parks' own workers attempts to steal the dinosaur embryos, and has to shut down critical security systems in the process. It's now a race for survival with dangerous creatures roaming all over the island.

Era/Year of Portrayal: near_future
Distinctive characteristics of the world in portrayal:

Scientists were able to clone dinosaurs and kept them in a secluded area. They wanted to dinosaurs to live among humans, but keeping them in a zoo-like environment. The park was run by computers and other technology which causes a problem when a power outage occurs.

Technology

  • Name of portrayed presence-evoking technology: Computers, cloning
  • Description of the technology: The technology is their lifeline when it comes to protecting themselves from the wild dinosaurs. It is a large network of computers that control the whole park. The cloning process created all these destructive animals.
  • Nature of task or activity: To protect themselves from the dinosaurs. To be able to run the park in a safe way. To control the behavior of the dinosaurs. To be able to clone dinosaurs
  • Performance of the Technology: The technology functions great until the power outage. The technological advances allows them to create genetic clones of many dinosaurs.
  • Description of creator(s): The creator is a Science Fiction novel writer. He was 51 years old when the release of this movie happened.
  • Major goal(s) of creator(s): He was a brilliant writer who loved to get his readers trapped into the story, not wanting to put the book down.
  • Description of users of technology: Well-educated, genius scientists
  • Type(s) of presence experience in the portrayal: social_presence
  • Description of presence experience: The user would feel fear during any interaction of the cloned dinosaurs. That changed from the first visit to the park where they were amazed by the dinosaurs. That was before the malfunction of the computer system which was their protection.
  • User awareness of technology during experience: Everyone was aware that the technology was the cause of the problem.
  • Valence of experience: They found it unpleasant. It harmed their life.
  • Specific responses: They had an improved sense of task performance and skill training because they relied on the technology to protect them, but they had to depend on themselves to stay alive.
Long-term consequences:

Although there are some deaths during the film, the ending was able to keep alive some characters. Some dinosaurs attacked each other which allowed the remaining few to escape the park. Only the flying dinosaurs were able to escape. The ones who survived left by helicopter.

Other:

Coder name: Ann Lowrey
Coder email: ann.lowrey@temple.edu
Coder affiliation: Temple University, Matthew Lombard