> I was one of these young software engineers that saw Hackers back in 1995 and was totally blown away by the potential shown of network technology.

> … Hackers (1995), which after more than 20 years, holds still up amazingly well.

I’m not sure you’re demonstrating any appreciable sense of objectivity here.

Hackers was an absolute joke of a movie; an exaggerated snapshot of ridiculous, misinformed 1990s pop culture thinking on technology.

Ready Player One is pop culture fan service, played out amidst a dystopian corporate future. It’s not even really trying to discuss technology at all.