Halt and catch fire6/22/2023 “They’re the thing that gets you to the thing.” “Computers aren’t the thing,” says one character, more than once. But while this is ostensibly a show about technology, focused on people whose lives revolve around boxes of circuits and wires, their story-and the story of technology-always circles back to that most basic of human emotions: the desire to connect with people. The heroes and antiheroes of Halt and Catch Fire can see the future barreling down the tracks and are just trying to stay out ahead of it. But it’s getting faster and faster and I’m terrified I’m going to miss it … I don’t want to get left behind.” “Something big, like a train, and all I want is to jump on board. “I know that something’s coming,” says one young programmer on the show. The AMC drama, which came to a close last weekend, traces the modern computer age from the early 1980s to the dawn of the internet in the mid ‘90s, a time when the tech industry felt like a heady mix of meritocracy and magic: have the right idea at the right time, and you could remake the world, forever changing the way people talk, work, think, and live. A series of gleaming signals race across a retro-futuristic landscape of red neon, running hotter and faster until one takes the lead, shatters a gleaming barrier, and lights up an LED bulb that feels as big as the world. The opening credits of Halt and Catch Fire play out like a beautiful idea.
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