Wargames: computers in the 80s, weapons to end all wars, and dinosaurs w/ Joe Ruppel

Published: Feb. 7, 2017, 9:05 a.m.

b'Cold War \\n\\n

The 50s, the 60s, and the 80s and the climate at the time of the film. Star Wars (but not\\xa0that Star Wars).

\\n\\n Weapons to End War \\n\\n

Gatling and the Gatling Gun, Alfred Nobel and dynamite, Tesla and his particle beams, and\\u2026. nuclear weapons?

\\n\\n Early-80s Computing\\xa0Hardware \\n\\n

Text-To-Speech. Voder at the 1939 World\\u2019s Fair. Matthew Broderick\\u2019s computer. WarGames computer graphics and rendering radar screens.

\\n\\n Machine Learning \\n\\n

Teaching computers to teach themselves. The point where this movie steps into scifi territory.

\\n\\n Dinosaurs \\n\\n

Dinosaur extinction hypotheses at the time of the film. Falken is a psychopath.

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