It's funny, the NORAD command center in WarGames was an over-the-top set (the director called it "NORAD's wet dream of itself") meant to visually impress the au

It's funny, the NORAD command center in WarGames was an over-the-top set (the director called it "NORAD's wet dream of itself") meant to visually impress the audience, but it became the blueprint for command centers everywhere going nuts with monitors. Quoth William Lord, Commander, Air Force Cyberspace Command: "It was a great movie! A few years later, I was an executive officer with the Air Force Space Command stationed at Norad near Cheyenne Mountain. And I'm wondering, 'Gee, where can we get such cool-looking displays?' It was a good forcing function. It required us to all of a sudden say, 'If it really can look like this, why doesn't it?'" Source: http://archive.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/16-08/ff_wargames?currentPage=all http://archive.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/16...