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The Wargames bit intrigued me, so if others are curious there's way more available about it than I figured.

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/wargames-ronald-reagan-c...

Fantastic article, thanks for sharing. Also, this little bit, "... I really wanted to talk about WarGames because it’s the one movie I can think of that’s had the most direct influence on any technology policy issue." made me think of another film, which I would argue had a great effect on technology policy. The film was Disney's "Victory Through Air Power" [1]. (See, specifically, the "impact" section [2] of the Wikipedia article.)

The film is an astonishing piece of animation (which in places resembles an almost manga style), education and propaganda. I cannot recommend it highly enough and it is available at the Internet Archive [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Through_Air_Power_(fil...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Through_Air_Power_(fil...

[3] https://archive.org/details/VictoryThroughAirPower

Awesome movie, tysm, really eye opener.

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