The novel probably did more than the film to popularize dynamical systems theory through its chaos outreach, IMO. Jeff Goldblum dressing in black and spouting truisms about it in-character (perhaps doing character penance for his semi-evil role as Seth Brundle in The Fly) whilst taking cash from Apple in the "Think Different" campaign, not so much so. But I have to take my hat off to Wayne Knight's depiction of Dennis Nedry, the bent Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH)
Your point remains though. It's a case of epistemic exceptionalism driven by corporations, and again, having read the novel in the early 90s before seeing the film (my mum was signed up to a book club offering for a time), Crichton underlined this in the original medium.
Dr. Bruce Simpson
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