Comment by qsera
2 days ago
>how many times faster my iPhone 17 Pro Max is..
Sadly most of that power is not working for you, most of the time, but working against you, by spying, tracking and manipulating you.
Bet that was not include in your sci-fi dreams in 70s..
Oh but we had The Forbin Project, its sequel Colossus, and later Wargames. Not to mention Star Trek episodes with malignant computers. And I have No Mouth But I Must Scream.
In the 70s, science fiction fed me Cold War fears of world-controlling mainframes.
Colossus: The Forbin Project is simply a renamed release of The Forbin Project, a few months after the later had a poor opening. Didn’t help the box office much. I liked it, back when it was easy to dismiss as an impossible dystopia.
Oh. Well the sequel in print was named Colossus. It is about continuing life under the reign of supercomputer.
I'd love to see you substantiate that - bet you can't.
I certainly can't. I'm running GrapheneOS.