WarGames (feat. Joe Ruppel, History Nerd) : Episode 76 - decipher SciFi : the show about how and why
Summary: Stream the movie:<br><br> <a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/movie/wargames/id268643342?mt=6&at=1001l7hP" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">iTunes<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/WarGames-Matthew-Broderick/dp/B0011EQBOS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485833390&sr=8-1&keywords=wargames&tag=decsci05-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Amazon<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> WarGames<br> What: Young Matthew Broderick accidentally almost hacks the planet.<br><br> Directed by: John Badham<br><br> Starring: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood<br> Featuring guest co-host<br><br> <a href="http://www.decipherscifi.com/about/joe-ruppel/"></a><a href="http://www.decipherscifi.com/about/joe-ruppel/">Joe Ruppel</a>, history nerd and our co-bff<br> Recommended and Related Media<br> <br> Hardcore History 59 – The Destroyer of Worlds<br><br> A light edition of Dan Carlin’s wonderful history podcast – only six hours!<br><br> Get the thing <a href="http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-59-the-destroyer-of-worlds/" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Hardcore History<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> Silicon Cowboys<br><br> The documentary our guest recommended on the story of the personal computer from the Compaq point of view. Appropos for early 80s computing goodness.<br><br> Stream it <a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/movie/silicon-cowboys/id1148235324?mt=6&at=1001l7hP" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">iTunes<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Cowboys-Rod-Canion/dp/B01M0F3NNQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486457342&sr=8-1&keywords=silicon+cowboys&tag=decsci05-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Amazon<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> Show Notes<br> Cold War<br> The 50s, the 60s, and the 80s and the climate at the time of the film. Star Wars (but not that Star Wars).<br> Weapons to End War<br> Gatling and the Gatling Gun, Alfred Nobel and dynamite, Tesla and his particle beams, and…. nuclear weapons?<br> Early-80s Computing Hardware<br> Text-To-Speech. Voder at the 1939 World’s Fair. Matthew Broderick’s computer. WarGames computer graphics and rendering radar screens.<br> <br> Machine Learning<br> Teaching computers to teach themselves. The point where this movie steps into scifi territory.<br> Dinosaurs<br> Dinosaur extinction hypotheses at the time of the film. Falken is a psychopath.<br> <br> Goodbyes<br> The only winning move is not to play.<br> <br> Feedback? Please Contact Us<br> <a href="mailto:contact@decipherscifi.com" target="_blank">contact@decipherscifi.com</a><br> Amazon and iTunes links include our affiliate codes. If you wouldn’t mind helping us out a tiny bit, go ahead and use them to buy/stream something. Thanks!
