In the early 1980s Michael Crichton expressed his views and concerns about computing and programming in contributions and interviews to magazines like Creative Computing and Compute!. At this time he was creating a computer game and writing extensively about this both fiction and non-fiction
It is interesting that his views included considering the programming of computers and artificial intelligence as part and parcel of human evolution, an idea fully developed later by many authors like the Wachowski Brothers in The Matrix (1999) and its sequels. Movies like Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) and Michael Crichton's own "Runaway" (1984) could be considered the first steps in this direction.
In 1983 he had published a non-fiction book called Electronic Life.
