Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5e!hou5d!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!kline From: kline@uiucuxc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: enter the Luddites.... - (nf) Message-ID: <2498@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 24-Jul-83 23:32:15 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.2498 Posted: Sun Jul 24 23:32:15 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Jul-83 23:35:03 EDT Lines: 14 #R:utcsstat:-77200:uiucuxc:4000050:000:466 uiucuxc!kline Jul 24 19:22:00 1983 We need a see-what-technology-does-to-make-everyday-life- easier movie. And not the gee-whiz timbre of "Fast Forward" and "The Computer Programme" either. NASA has been using this approach for years: if people want to complain about evil technology and government waste on the space program, let them give back their microwave ovens and pocket calculators and non-stick pans. I think Wargames was a step in the opposite direction. Charley Kline, U of I CSO.