Park@sri-unix.UUCP (07/28/83)
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Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (07/28/83)
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Gripes? You mean things like:
Hawaii 5-0 always using the card sorter as the epitome
of computer readout?
Stepford Wives portraying androids so realistic that no one
notices, and executives/scientists who prefer them to true
companions?
Demon Seed showing impregnation of a woman by a computer?
Telephon slowing down CRT typeout to 150 baud and adding
Teletype sound effects?
War Games similarly slowing the CRT typeout; using
natural language communication; using voice synthesis
on a home terminal connected by modem to a military computer;
postulating that our national defense is in the hands of
unsecured computers with dial-up ports, faulty password
systems, games directories, and big panels of flashing lights;
and portraying scientists and generals as nerds?
Star Wars suggesting that computerized targeting mechanisms
will always be inferior to human reflexes?
Tron's premise that a computer can suck you into its internal
conceptual world?
Star Trek and War Games preaching that any computer can be
disabled, even melted, by a logical contradiction or an
unsatisfiable task?
Nah, I don't mind.
-- Ken Laws