The Most Dangerous Computers on Screen

The Onion’s A.V. Club has an amusing review of seventeen dangerous computers seen on the big screen:

From 2001: A Space Odyssey to your parents’ attempts to check their e-mail, there’s been an ongoing war between humans and computers that have gotten too big for their binary britches. Save for maybe Windows ’95, no computer-based foe has ever been as diabolical as Master Control Program, the code-munching behemoth in Disney’s Tron.

Funny stuff. Seems like they’re missing some really good ones, like Red Dwarf’s Holly who develops Computer Senility, but I like the concept. Reminds me of an old cartoon…

psychotic computer

Or maybe this one:

Boot

Someone should put together a list of the most dangerous computers in comics and books, since they seem to be the ones that are eventually launched to the screen.

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