Ever since I read through the part of Ready Player One where the
movie 'War Games' appears I've been thinking that we should watch it in
class one day instead of the other media that we usually do watch
(Silicon Valley). I even mentioned it to some of my classmates out loud.
I know that watching it was probably planned in the course all along (I
believ that it's in the nature of our professor to have things planned
like that all along) but a tiny part of me still likes to believe that
he overheard me saying it in class and thought 'you know what? yeah we
should watch War Games one of these days' and so he mercifully got it
and played it for us.
Anyway, I really enjoyed the
movie. Even though our professor warned us that the movie was old and
that it showed a lot I don't quite believe it did. Not enough for that
warning. Where it did, it didn't bother me at all. I think that when a
movie is good like that my brain just accepts the universe it presents
to me without questioning it. Another influential factor is (I think)
that our professor was there in the setting that the movie presents, and
I think he can remember and/or relate to the things in the movie,
looking back. He sees and has lived the aging with the movie
(Gracefully).
One of the things that I enjoyed the most
about the movie is that despite having been around for a long time it
actually kind of touched upon the single thing that actually worries me
about computer security nowadays: with so so many super important,
mission-critical or classified or life dependant information and
procesess being hosted or automated with computers and the internet, I sometimes
consider the possibility of two or more powerful groups (not nations
necessarily) getting into conflict or crysis because of something that
happended in the computer-data or internet social media world. Just like
the characters in the movie, it's a scenario that I wouldn't like to
live through.
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