WarGames
I've always heard about his movie although never actually had the chance to watch it or simply forget about it, but finally managed to watch it and really enjoyed it.
The movie deals with what some people fear about technology and computing as well as the automatization and replacement of humans with machines and with AI. It may be exaggerated to use a global thermonuclear war to represent what may go wrong but it is possible.
There is no perfect solution, no way to be 100% safe from failure, humans commit mistakes or their emotions may be inadequate for a certain job (I'm not going to say that there's evil in people but as the movie suggested, there's people that simply can't turn a key for whatever reason), also, computers and programs, yes, in the end people are the ones that program a software and they decide whether to develop something good or bad, but as the system grows bigger it becomes harder to control what a system is really capable to achieve besides of what was programmed for.
I can't fully decide if automatization and technology progress is the best for humanity, although as an engineer I support it and like it but considering that not even this area is impervious to failures and to the devil that exists within all humans, sometimes I doubt whether this is the best thing or not.
People is not stupid, they wouldn't start something that they can't win, I think that this is what has stopped or at least delay another world war for now, but also this is what keeps pushing people and governments to improve their military and attack force, I don´t like to think about this kind of things, 'cause I know that it can't be stopped but to think that a simple (not so simple as in the movie) mistake or a misunderstanding can ignite war makes me feel uneasy, with enough pressure and fear. people can make stupid things.
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