James Lileks, one of the guys who make me despair of ever being a really good writer, on the technology found in Jurassic Park:

Hard to believe it’s been over 10 years since "Jurassic Park" came out, he said, desperately looking for a peg on which to hang remarks about a movie he saw the other night for no particular reason. It still looks fine, even though the choice of actors is amusing (Newman as the turncoat nerd, Samuel L. M. F. Jackson as a chain-smoking & utterly disgusted badass programmer) and the technology amusing. They ran JP on Macs, for one thing. I'm was happy to see it, but why? Because of the large number of amusement-park security systems written for that platform, I suppose. In retrospect it’s horrifying: my GOD, our safety depends on a 233 mhz from the inter-Jobs era? We’re SO DEAD.