As a fan of Michael Crichton (1942-2008), I am tempted to include him in this blog. And this is one temptation that's worth taking a bite at. Let me share a bit about this author before we move on to the chunk of the matter. A student of science himself ( Biological anthropology & medicine (.M.D.) ), Crichton wrote extensively on possibilities that would soon become a reality. He is most famous for writing the novel Jurassic Park which later got made into a movie. My personal favourites of his novels include Sphere, The Lost World and The Andromeda Strain. Having read most of his novels a long time ago, the ideas that remain stand out in contrast to the rest of the narrative. One of these ideas that has been modern man's popular belief that he is not a part of Nature; that Man stands separately, as a controller of Nature rather than a "flowering" of it. In today's times when climate change and extinction of species has become a topic...