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#818872 Mon 06/07/15 19:59 UTC | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,132 Likes: 5 Member | OP  Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,132 Likes: 5 | Anyone else remember a mediocre mid 90s movie called 'The Net' with Sandra Bullok? Just watched it again ... it's on NetFlix.
While (for the 90s) the 'tech' was really 'bogus', as I watched it today I was thinking that a lot of what was being done is a =lot= more doable today and getting more doable every day.
Prophetic?
MikeD
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 3,231 Ooze-based life form Moderator | | Ooze-based life form Moderator Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 3,231 | I kinda remember this although my brain may have blocked some of it out due to it being largely cheesy. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 47,858 Likes: 2 Moderator |  Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 47,858 Likes: 2 | Cheeky and I were just talking about that movie the other day. We saw it years ago and really liked it and wondered what ever happened to it. We had a VHS copy but never saw it on DVD. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,479 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,479 Likes: 7 | I remember it. Maybe the first movie about computer identity theft?  | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 17,984 Likes: 1 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 17,984 Likes: 1 | Yeah. I remember that flick well and liked it. I've often suspected that it was the truth presented as fiction. Do software companies can generate business by artificially creating a need for their products? | | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 22,157 Likes: 8 (Buffalo) Moderator | | (Buffalo) Moderator Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 22,157 Likes: 8 | Just look at Apple. Steve Jobs was famously quoted as saying he did not want his company to provide for the consumer what they needed. He said Apple would create the product and then create the consumer's need for it. | | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,132 Likes: 5 Member | | OP Member Joined: May 2000 Posts: 42,132 Likes: 5 | Nep, at the time that the movie was written much of the 'tech' that they =supposedly= used didn't exist, wouldn't have been possible.
That is =not= so much the case today. That was the thing that struck me when I was re-watch the movie. If they had wanted to 'scare' folks into being more careful, setting the same sort of movie in today, where folks have a better understanding of how 'connected' things are today, would have been the plan <g>
MikeD
| | | | | Joined: May 2000 Posts: 17,984 Likes: 1 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 17,984 Likes: 1 | Maybe not, but the premise, that virus protection software firms were spreading viruses that they would then have the cure for, absolutely was. | | |
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