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Shall we play a game? In 1983, the Matthew Broderick flick not only made us fear nuclear annihilation, it also made us fear giant supercomputers, the early Internet, and creepy A.I.s that like to play games, for real. Having the WOPR/Joshua supercomputer play Tic-Tac-Toe by itself to learn that only only winning move was not to play taught it the same lesson about playing the game Global Thermonuclear War. This prevented it from launching the nukes after accessing the nuclear launch code, CPE1704TKS. Thankfully, in real life, the actual launch code was for 20 years, a brilliant code that nobody would have ever guessed or did.
Anyways, now that we’re on the brink of WWIII almost daily and A.I.s are actually taking over everything, this cool new yet quite retro is a sobering yet quite fashionable reminder that maybe we shouldn’t be playing this game. How about a nice game of chess instead? Check out the video below if you’ve never seen this great old movie, which would actually be perfect for a modern day remake.
