Stumble It!Jurassic Park is a crazy movie with a crazy plot, and it is fun. Even long before the movie came out, many speculated that it would not be long before humans could resurrect long extinct species. I am not sure that anyone thought that as many of the tools necessary to do this could be put in place so soon, even those who have been speculating about it for sometime. This article in the New York Times gives a description of many of these tools and their current state of development.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/science/20mammoth.html?pagewanted=2&hp
It seems to me that the trajectory of the development of these tools is not linear, but exponential. The trend of development seems closer in acceleration of efficiency and throughput and overall complexity to that of the computer world than that of the biological sciences or chemistry. Of course, much of the new technology being brought into the field is underpinned by information processing tools.
Tags: Extinct Species, extinction, Jurassic Park, resurrection
