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I feel you on that. Tron and Sneakers are both more fun, and Sneakers captures computing more accurately. On the culture side, I don't know of any major films
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I feel you on that. Tron and Sneakers are both more fun, and Sneakers captures computing more accurately.
On the culture side, I don't know of any major films that capture computing culture. Charles Stross's Laundry series does a better job than most (You can still read The Atrocity Archives without a backround in computing, but you'll get this nagging feeling you're missing something), seeing as Stross is up to his eyeballs in computing. It's also the first piece of fiction I know of to reference Symbolics. And of course, the protagonist's name is Bob Oliver Francis Howard. Because that book just couldn't get any more in-jokey. But, you know, in a good way.
"You" and "Daemon" also capture bits of computing fairly well.
- ergothus 10y agoSo many books in, and I never noticed his name...
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoIf you mean the protagonist's full name, it's only mentioned in "Pimpf" AFAIK. And even then, not directly. I had to have TvTropes help me put it together.
- laumars 10y agoAntitrust[1] is good for getting the subtle details right while still having a dramatic plot for Hollywood. I quite liked War Games[2] as well. [1] http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/ http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/ [2] http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/ http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoWargames isn't great on accuracy, but it's not awful, and it has a good story, not just tech-masturbation, so it gets the gold star. Haven't seen Antitrust.