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Kind of feel weird posting this but a recent show, Mr. Robot feels like the next attempt at something kind of like "Hackers".

One of the early on episodes actually has a character musing aloud if some screen writer is making the next Hackers to incorrectly portray this generations technologist. As they watch Hackers on TV in a hotel. A bit tongue in check, because the show itself is doing exactly that.

It's actually quite good and surprisingly "accurate" on the technology bits and even some of the personalities.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot_(TV_series)



I love Mr. Robot (even though it borrows rather heavily from Palahniuk, among others) and strongly recommend it to anyone who liked the movie Hackers. I particularly enjoyed the Hackers reference in that episode you mention. The character's contempt at the technical infeasibility of the data visualizations is well captured as I've probably heard that same criticism a million times by my "real hacker" friends who may have snorted derisively but still watched the film to its end multiple times.




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