ENTRY 29: Reflection on the "War Games"

There is a film named “War games”. This film depicts the tension of the cold war in a kind of fancy way assuming that the real war is approaching; it also discussed the hot issue like the technology and the children rebellion, leading to its popularity among the Americans. This film grabs the attention by its unique way to doubt the technology which is so trustworthy and becoming more and more closely connected with people’s daily life. In the film, all the coming war omens are the illusions created by the computer, and because people so much rely on the technology and a real war is almost round the corner. Actually, the same like today’s phenomenon, people rely on a lot on the computer, which is very dangerous. For example, if my computer breaks down at the end of the semester, it means all works that I’ve done must be redo again. What a terrible thing. Now, many statistic about human have been processed into computer, it is very dangerous because once the information is lost, the security of individual information lose. So this film give a warn to people that though computer is a creation of human being, it doesn’t mean it is secure. So we should be careful about the technology.