War games
This blog entry is based on the movie War Games. I really enjoyed seeing some of the technology at the time. How computers connect to the internet by using telephone lines and dialing numbers, or also the low security of computer software like the one were the school grades were kept, but most surprisingly how engineers and software developers have taken this to another level in only ~30 years.
Trouble started when David managed to enter via a backdoor the system had while trying to access a video games company's upcoming catalog. While thinking he was playing some games, David decides to play “Thermonuclear war games” and sets a counter to start a nuclear war against the Soviet Union. It's a bit surprising how unbelievably impossible it is to build a machine that automizes a full war inside itself, a huge amount of processing power and memory is needed to calculate all the possible outcomes.
This resource is then used by David to make the computer end the game noticing that there was no case in which war was the best solution.
Trouble started when David managed to enter via a backdoor the system had while trying to access a video games company's upcoming catalog. While thinking he was playing some games, David decides to play “Thermonuclear war games” and sets a counter to start a nuclear war against the Soviet Union. It's a bit surprising how unbelievably impossible it is to build a machine that automizes a full war inside itself, a huge amount of processing power and memory is needed to calculate all the possible outcomes.
This resource is then used by David to make the computer end the game noticing that there was no case in which war was the best solution.
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