Last week in New Media class we watched the film “War Games”, a film about a high school student who accidentally breaks into a military computer that is over the strategies of nuclear weapons, which he mistook as a new computer game. I believe the overall purpose of the movie was to show just how much power people have with technology and that technology cannot be relied on by itself. Some believe that technology is in the process of “taking over” and will eventually take over humanity. But this movie shows that that is impossible because the computers only understand what they are taught by humans and can’t do any thinking on its own. Technology can actually help humans. It can help us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But it can also be used for the wrong reasons and could turn a simple mistake into a disaster with whatever power its given. When using technology people should be aware of these possibilities and could watch this film to do so.