"Welcome to our genitic world. Fast. Furious and out of control. This is not the world of the future. It's the world of the now."
"Next" is a fantastic book to end the Michaels reign of the pen and a great way to hang up his writing gloves. I will surely miss his writing style as well as his directing style. He has written such masterpieces as Jurrasic Park and The Lost World, which were made into movies.
"Next," is the last book he wrote, with such an appropriate title was about the genetic world, and what is happening, and also he discusses what will happen if we are not careful and cautious.
In almost all of his books, they were in some way having to do with science which is probably because he was a medical student in his youth.
Most of his books begins with some quotation. The quote that started this book so masterfully is: "The more the universe seems comprehensible the more it also seems pointless."
To me this means, the more we pay attention to the details, the interest that the larger picture dwindled. This describes life in all ways. The more you figit with the little things, the more the pointlessness of reality takes hold. For instance, in a puzzle, when you work on a particular section you can't really see the whole picture, until you have finished with the whole layout. However sometimes you cannot figure out the whole picture if you haven't done of the details to the best of your knowledge.
The story begins with the discovery of a novelty gene, D4DR, which is in charge of thrill seeking behaviour. It also makes reference to some of the Chimpanzees man experiments that were conducted under both Stalin and Hitler. Then the story continues to a conference called "Make it happen now."
It then is back to the interactionof a Chimpanzees boy at school and how he gets terrorized at school. The chimp boy was home school because of this. When he went to school one day, he ended up biting a boy, or being accused of this, because of this his serogate mother was called and he was removed.
When the introduction of a species to another must be handled very delicately. Meaning you cannot force similar relations. In essence they have to occur spontaneously. If and when they occur properly they have a greater possibility of success. After all, aren't familiar relations a spontaneous response to begin with? How can you constructs and organize a spontaneous response.
