Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
by pram on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @11:52AM
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Hackers was a joke but it has an enduring cultural cachet with IT nerds at least. I hear "hack the planet" and references to "the gibson" all the time still. I don't think I've ever heard a single IRL reference to anything in RPO
Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
by Apocryphon on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:31PM
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There were plenty of references, but they were to the same '80s pop culture that the book worships. Really, all of the VR tech was just a plot device to create a magic world where that Gen X nostalgia never ends.
Ready Player One tells us about technology about as much as Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 does.
Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
by sushisource on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:47PM
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Huh? People refer to corny one liners from Arnie movies too, that doesn't mean they had a philosophical impact on the way those people think about guns, or whatever.
Hackers is a hilarious and fun over the top movie but I don't think it changed the way anyone thinks about technology.
Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
by pram on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:56PM
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I didn't say it did.
Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
by jsemrau on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:40PM
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Hacker surely was exaggerated, ridiculous, and misinformed but it made tech "cool".
I believe that Metaverse tech, which is currently at the same stage is isolationistic and enjoyed by a fringe of users. Same as the Internet was seen in the early '90s.
> … Hackers (1995), which after more than 20 years, holds still up amazingly well.
I’m not sure you’re demonstrating any appreciable sense of objectivity here.
Hackers was an absolute joke of a movie; an exaggerated snapshot of ridiculous, misinformed 1990s pop culture thinking on technology.
Ready Player One is pop culture fan service, played out amidst a dystopian corporate future. It’s not even really trying to discuss technology at all.