War Games | Socialist Action 1983

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puter freaks scare the pants off me.

I can just see in twenty years' time everything will be run by computer and credit card, and all us old time computer illiterates will be out in the cold.

Time was when you could function by knowing the Ning s English your twelve times table, plus a geography. But to proWar Games is a movie about: a 17-vear old computer genius in the States For some time now, I've had a sneaking suspicion that the younger generation (for oldies like me that means people born after 1960) had the drop on us. All these seven and eight year-olds who are comwho links up his bedroom with what he thinks is a toy computer 'What games do hero play askar, 'Backgammon, poker. chess, , chequers Global Thermonuclear War' responds the computer.

So as they start to play the game, attacking Soviet USAF Central War Room display screens deep under the Mid-West mountains.

When Mom calls him down for tea the computer freak stops playing - but the War Operations Planning computer doesn't, and later rings him up to puter freak. 'What's the difference' replies War Operations Planning Computer. Quite.

War Games has

teenage audience in mind, Is there a future for A SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY PAMPHLET PETE GOODWIN