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Comment by FarmerPotato

2 days ago

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.