AH-HAHA! That's it entirely. All we need is a flashing red light and a foaming epileptic for the cherry on the cake.

I just finished Crichton's novel, Next; a series of lightly interlaced plotlines set in The Near Future, each addressing the ethical quandaries of this whole brave new world of genetic engineering. With talking monkeys and hyperintelligent parrots and everything.

It was fascinating enough, but wake me up when the cheetah girls are ready.