What Computer Can Do
so Hollywood, I forgive you for Antitrust, but your other sins will never be forgotten.
#2.A Computer Might Become Self-Aware At Any Moment
Worst Offender: WarGames
What Happened:A teenage hacker (Matthew Broderick), using an early-80s computer that looks like it may have parts made of wood, accidentally hacks into NORAD' supercomputer (code named "WOPR") and finds out it is sentient and intends to launch a global nuclear war as a way to amuse itself.
In Real Life... The microwave-sized IMSAI 8080 computer the hero used to take over the nation' nuclear missile fleet had 64KB of memory. That means if it tried to open this article as a Word document, it'd get about half way through before it ran out.
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