WarGames

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Last class we watched a movie called "WarGames", this is a movie that I found very interesting. The movie tells the story of a guy who connects to WOPR, a military supercomputer programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war, thinking that this computer is a new gaming computer. Once he connects to it, he discovers a list of names that were similar to games, he saw names like chess, tic tac toe but he found a title that referred to a Global Thermonuclear War, he started this game. He played with the computer but then he was wanted by the FBI, the WOPR computer was tied between the simulation and the reality, he attempted to start World War III because it was connected to the nuclear weapons control system. 

I must say that even though this movie is not an actual one, I really enjoyed it. The movie plot is simple but grabs the viewers attention. I think that special effects are not a thing that may affect the movie, even though it lacks complicated special effects, the movie doesn't need them. 

Something that really impressed me is how the movie shows a message between technology and how it may affect life either for good or for bad in our lives. Another thing that I found very interesting is the way the movie includes an important topic of technology that was not well known for the movie time, artificial intelligence and its simple concepts that you can see through this movie (how with some tests a machine can learn about a certain topic). 

We can see this clearly in the movie when the WOPR computer couldn't understand between reality and simulation so the best solution to avoid nuclear war was to teach him that there are sometimes when it is not possible to win. 

I consider WarGames a really interesting movie that I would totally recommend.

References:


- Badham, John, director. WarGames. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1983.

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