Anyone who says the Dinosaurs are evil missed the forest for the trees when it comes to Crictons work. The JP Dinosaurs aren't meant to be "real" dinosaurs. The entire point of the series both book and movie is about man's inability to actually control nature and it's complex systems.
I think the ethics of keeping cloned Extinct animals in zoos is, in some form, a topic of debate now with how many people are attempting to do it. ~Thylo
It is a common type of a plot: a cautionary tale where people meddle with science and create a disaster. But these types of stories grew outdated. People accepted science and complex technology. Stories from the last 10 years usually show technology as controllable and useful. I can imagine that if Jurassic Park was written in the 2010s, then tyrannosaurus and velociraptors would be returned to their pens and the park would be brought back to order and continue to welcome visitors. Ehm, a bit over-optymistic. These things are STILL very much science fiction.
Given how many things haven't improved since the 1980s/90s, but actually got worse, I'm not sure about your optimism.
I disagree. While one may not see Extinct animals cloned back or bred in captivity for a long time and probably not as many species will have success as are being attempted, the science of cloning a recently-Extinct animal is very much real. Spain succeeded in cloning a Pyrenean Ibex in 2009, and though the animal did not survive too long, this proves it can be done and it's really only a matter of time before someone with access to a species with better preserved DNA than the ibex manages to figure it out. Even right now the San Diego Zoo Safari Park is attempting to clone Southern White Rhinoceros to later use to clone Northern Whites, a species which will certainly be Extinct by the time this is succeeded. It may not be a practical conservation tool or producing any major results atm, but it is far from science fiction. ~Thylo
With the amount of resources the park would consume, the amount of money necessary to create all of the dinosaurs, the advanced medical and research technology that would be required, and the highly trained staff that would work there? A day pass would cost hundreds of $USD at least; maybe even over a thousand.
