One of the best books I ever read was Jurassic Park. Who wuda thunk it? A guy standing next to me in Barnes and Noble recommended it so I bought it. How bad could it be. I already read several books by Michael Crichton and liked them all. I was so transfixed by it I read it in a weekend. All the while I was thinking - what an awesome movie this would be if only the technology was good enough to bring the reality to life. And three years later, there I was in the movie theater completely awestruck by the renditions of dinosaurs that were totally realistic.
If you've only seen the movie, I have to explain one of the things that interested me in the story line that was too subtle to come across in the movie because it is all about what we do. The DNA strands used to clone the dinosaurs were incomplete so the scientists used a frog from Africa to fill in the gaps but this frog had an ability that no one saw as potentially being a problem. In times of stress in the community, if the sexes became unbalanced, females had the ability to transform into males (there are fish who do this also). The scientists deliberately only cloned females. Now we come to the software. As the animals were cloned and added to the various pens around the property, the monitoring equipment kept track of them so they could identify if any went missing. Additional animals never occurred to the programmer so the software knew there were 8 of type X in the pen and so it counted 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 - OK all accounted for and moved on so they never recognized that the dinosaurs were reproducing. The whole fiasco was caused by a programming bug