listened to this in the car with jay. it's interesting that this book is older than us and is all about technology and despite some major details that date the book (a computer for a hospital that takes up the entire basement and uses punchcards and tapes) and some major fears about computers taking over the world (which, I suppose, in a way they have, but as far as I know, none of them have gone rogue and decided to secede and begin their own society) it wasn't tooooo bad. I'm not a huge fan of suspense books and this one had a lot of cliche's, but who knows? Maybe Crichton was the first one to write these, so they weren't cliches back then? Not a particularly cheerful or uplifting book.