Ronald Reagan?! The actor?!?
Then who’s vice-president, Jerry Lewis?
With dementia?
WarGames pretty much defined what hacking was until the late 90s. Any business and organization that didn’t change policy because of WarGames was going to feel pain.
His economic and social policies were informed by dystopian sci-fi
Honesty there are worse things
Too bad he didn’t watch Star Trek. Fucking cunt.
Given that trek has a contingent of right wing chud fans, it probably wouldn’t have helped
Apparently he picked up Gene Roddenberry’s cane for him when he visited the set of Trek one time.
Bastards look out for bastards.
Are they saying that the president that named the Strategic Defense Initiative as “Star Wars” was deeply influenced by sci fi?
Star Wars is not sci fi. It’s religious fantasy.
… With space ships, lasers, and aliens. Is this like when people say heavy metal isn’t rock?
yeah…you think space ships, lasers, and aliens is science?
How do you focus a laser to project a meter only?
Well, it wouldn’t be a laser, more something like magnetically confined plasma.
Yeah, speculative fiction causes people to speculate. That’s what it’s for.
That’s arguably one of the greatest values of scifi, to get people to ask what might happen in a world where plausible technological or cultural changes take place, or what we could learn about our own world from such possibilities.
At that time, nobody had an idea how much time there would be left until AI could have such abilities as shown in the movie.
Ronald Reagan Ruined Everything.
When he started his presidency he also asked White House staff where the war room was, like the one from Dr. Strangelove
I mean, valid question lol
he also early onsent alzheimers dementia at the time too, so that played a part.
It wasn’t early onset. He was fucking old.
