Why John Hammond Faked Jurassic Park

Selling the park to investors was ultimately just one piece of the pie, as Hammond was really marketing a technology with far more widespread implications for society.

In Crichton's book, Hammond spearheads a project called the Pachyderm Portfolio, which sees him fund development of a miniature elephant, the results of which are impressive enough to net him $870 million in venture capital funding, allowing him to then create InGen.

And this speaks to the fact that Hammond is selling potential more than he is a dinosaur theme park.

Let's say this initial round of funding allows Hammond the money to drill for dinosaur DNA, but per the rules of science, the badly dated DNA can only be used to create imperfect dinosaurs which die after a short period - just as the miniature elephant does in the book.

Hammond can nevertheless use the junky DNA as "proof" of progress to investors, allowing him to likely secure an even larger body of funding from worldwide governments and scientific institutions who want a slice of the action.

With the ball rolling and presumably billions of dollars coming in, Hammond wouldn't even really need to ever complete his promise of building the park.

Creating even a single robust dinosaur clone could revolutionise pretty much every major scientific field - especially medicine - and more than justify the billions poured into this thing.

Except, this promise of a technological revolution was also part of the facade that is Jurassic Park itself: a carrot dangled under the nose of the scientific community in order to fill InGen's coffers.

It wasn't just the park that was a sham - the research itself was a hollow shell which would've fallen apart were it granted even basic scrutiny from scientific bodies...