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Wargames: computers in the 80s, weapons to end all wars, and dinosaurs w/ Joe Ruppel
Cold War
The 50s, the 60s, and the 80s and the climate at the time of the film. Star Wars (but not that Star Wars).
Weapons to End War
Gatling and the Gatling Gun, Alfred Nobel and dynamite, Tesla and his particle beams, and…. nuclear weapons?
Early-80s Computing Hardware
Text-To-Speech. Voder at the 1939 World’s Fair. Matthew Broderick’s computer. WarGames computer graphics and rendering radar screens.
Machine Learning
Teaching computers to teach themselves. The point where this movie steps into scifi territory.
Dinosaurs
Dinosaur extinction hypotheses at the time of the film. Falken is a psychopath.
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Cold War
The 50s, the 60s, and the 80s and the climate at the time of the film. Star Wars (but not that Star Wars).
Weapons to End War
Gatling and the Gatling Gun, Alfred Nobel and dynamite, Tesla and his particle beams, and…. nuclear weapons?
Early-80s Computing Hardware
Text-To-Speech. Voder at the 1939 World’s Fair. Matthew Broderick’s computer. WarGames computer graphics and rendering radar screens.
Machine Learning
Teaching computers to teach themselves. The point where this movie steps into scifi territory.
Dinosaurs
Dinosaur extinction hypotheses at the time of the film. Falken is a psychopath.
Hardcore History 59 - The Destroyer of Worlds: Hardcore History
Silicon Cowboys: iTunesAmazon
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