10-8-95. NYPaper: "Got Killer Chips on Our Minds." (Film review) Why are computers so often portrayed as turning truth into lies and making our brains go haywire? Are we frightened? Do audiences love their computers? Probably not, movies say. Hal's evil-spirited descendants are all around us, threatening to take over intelligence, emotions, Social Security numbers and every other little thing that makes us civilized. All this tends to put a damper on the idea that we are a nation eager to embrace a wonderful new technology. While it makes sense that film makers would pounce on a flourishing, quickly growing, subject like computers, it doesn't necessarily follow that all those computers would be so destructive. But there are no movies right now in which a nice friendly computer wears tennis shoes and does something heroic. Instead, films are suggesting that we are a nation of secret technophobes, distrustful of a technology hurtling toward us faster than we can cry "Stop!" or run to the store for another self-deprecating book like "Windows '95 for Dummies" or "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows '95" (both actual titles). UNA_fim (9 kb)