Why WarGames is Still Predicting the Future 40 Years Later
WarGames may be 42 years old but its prescience about our current technocracy and race to take humans out of the loop is as clear as ever

WarGames may be 42 years old but its prescience about our current technocracy and race to take humans out of the loop is as clear as ever
October 17, 2025 | 1 min read
What you see on these screens up here is a fantasy; a computer-enhanced hallucination. WarGames may be 42 years old (!) but its prescience about our current technocracy and race to take humans out of the loop is as clear as ever. Dennis Fisher, Lindsey O-Donnell-Welch, Zoe Lindsey, and Pete Baker sit down in front of an IMSAI 8080 with some raw corn on the cob and a can of Tab to talk about this brilliant hacker movie classic.
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October 17, 2025 | 1 min read
Dennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist and author. He is one of the co-founders of Decipher and Threatpost and has been writing about cybersecurity since 2000. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. He is the author of 2.5 novels and once met Shaq. Contact: dennis at decipher.sc.