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WarGames (1983)
★ 7.1 · 2,142 ratings on TMDB
Is it a game, or is it real?
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
DirectorJohn Badham
The emergence reading
In WarGames, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “nuclear command simulation”. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing war, technology, authority, control.
↷ machinesUSwartechnologyauthoritycontrol
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E10autonomynuclear launch authority fully delegated to an AI system, eliminating human override (technology · local)