Why Tech Billionaires Love the Author of Jurassic Park
And why Michael Crichton wouldn’t have loved them back.
This past summer, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla started clashing online with Elon Musk over Musk’s support for Donald Trump. The two tech billionaires argued about immigration, climate policy and MAGA values before their debating devolved into name-calling. But there was one area they appeared to find common ground on: a decades-old media critique by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton.
“How many times have you read something in the media where you know the real story, but what they printed was diabolically false?” Musk asked on X, suggesting that press depictions of Trump were deceitful. “Agree on not trusting media,” Khosla replied. Hammering his point home, Musk posted a screenshot from Wikipedia about Crichton’s “Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.”