CNET Top 5: Movie computers Video
CNET Top 5: Movie computers Video Transcript
Welcome to CNET Top 5, where each time we meet we count down another hot CNET list. I'm Tom Merritt. It's time to redress a great wrong. There have been many lists of top robots. And many lists of top computer movies. But never a list of the top movie computers. Until now. Let's count down the Top 5 movie computers. At No. 5, Colossus from "The Forbin Project." A defense department supercomputer joins forces with its soviet counterpart and becomes sentient. "This is the voice of world control. Obey me and live, or disobey and die." That's where this semantic Web stuff you hear about is headed. Coming in at No. 4, The Enterprise Computer. The voice of Majel Barrett counted down countless self-destructs, responded to requests, and announced deck numbers in the elevator. Scotty even adorably mistook a primitive Mac for his beloved computer Up to No. 3, Master Control Program from "Tron." Technically software, but the software on the ENCOM mainframe. MCP tried to eliminate the Tron security program as well as the digitized version of programmer Kevin Flynn. End of Line. Sliding in at No 2. WOPR, The War Operation Plan Response computer featured in the movie "War Games." Would you like to play a game? If you ever run into WOPR on the Net and need to trick it out of Global Thermonuclear War, try tic-tac-toe. Before we get to No. 1, let's take a look at the movie computers that didn't make it on the list. And thanks to my colleagues and the folks on Twitter for the suggestions! All right. Let's get to our No. 1. The top dog in the dog pound of movie computers. He became operational on January 12, 1992. At No. 1, It's.... The HAL 9000! The Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer from "2001: A Space Odyssey." That glowing red eye, that beautiful singing voice, that keen ability to know when you need to take a stress pill and lie down. All excellent reasons to put HAL in the top spot. Along with the fact that we were afraid of getting blown out the airlock if we didn't. So many evil computers on the list. You won't see any of them getting a job at Google will ya? Well That's it for this edition of CNET Top 5. Thanks for watching. I'm Tom Merritt. See you next time.
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