I actually thought Jurassic World did a great job with the concept of cloned dinosaurs being old news, but it didn’t go far enough on the ramifications of that level of genetic engineering technology existing since the early 1990s. This world, while it would be very similar to OTL at first glance, should be drastically different in the field of medicine and biotechnology, which has ramifications throughout the 1990s and 2000s that make 2017 look very different.



The first is how InGen’s tech does away with a lot of diseases. Alzheimer’s, cancer, infertility, birth defects, etc. would all be gone in the First World. Organ failure is a thing of the past: need a new liver? Clone a new one. This even has ramifications for voluntary or “cosmetic” alterations: a MTF transsexual can have a womb grown just for them, which would likely bring the entire transgenderism issue to the political front far earlier than OTL.



Then there’s the concept of applying this genetic engineering tech to improve humanity. This would be the major source of controversy in the world: should designer babies be legalized? Is this the way of the future, or are we playing God? Are we saving mankind, or are we replacing it with something better...or worse? I imagine that while the West is still wringing its hands on the issue, the East sees this as a way to gain an advantage. Japan develops a robust infrastructure of artificial wombs, which empowers the robotics industry to create artificial nannies to take care of this new generation. China creates an army of clone girls for future generations of boys to marry, so the population bottleneck is not an ongoing problem.



The presence of I. Rex shows that large-scale genetic mix and matching is possible, and I find it difficult to believe that a theme park is the only organization in the world working on it. I can see military, intelligence, and black ops units around the world creating their own breeds of super soldiers; the first generations would now be in their early twenties, and given faster maturity rates, they’d probably have been in action for several years before. The legal status of these soldiers is in limbo: they are technically conscripts, perhaps even slaves, but what other family do they have? The Western governments, at least, already have a clever legal argument if the slavery issue ever does come up: the super soldiers are not genetically identical to humans, and so therefore are not persons and fall outside of the protection of anti-slavery laws.



As for the plot point of using dinosaurs in combat? It’s probably been tried, but failed because human infantry are still far more reliable.



Dinosaurs aren’t the only extinct animal brought back. Many animals, from mammoths to thylacines to dodos, are back. Driving species to extinction isn’t as bad a PR move as it once was, since any perpetrator can just spend a few million to bring the species back from the dead. This has, ironically, resulted in even more environmental degradation, as the idea that mankind can fix these problems through technology has set in. Last decade’s scheme to fix global warming by reviving ancient species of plankton to act as carbon sinks kinda backfired, as large portions of the Gulf of Mexico are now covered in runaway blooms of the stuff.