“RISC architecture is gonna change everything,” Angelina Jolie’s character said in the 1995 cult classic film “Hackers.” Incredibly, Jolie was absolutely right—and her prediction might be even truer today than it was then. www.wired.com/story/angeli... - ThreadSky

wired.com • 55 days ago

“RISC architecture is gonna change everything,” Angelina Jolie’s character said in the 1995 cult classic film “Hackers.”

Incredibly, Jolie was absolutely right—and her prediction might be even truer today than it was then.
https://www.wired.com/story/angelina-jolie-was-right-about-risc-architecture/

Comments

rovalo.bsky.social•55 days ago

Love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVo9_h3-zwQ

phantomframe.bsky.social•55 days ago

Come on you guys, it was KATE, the character played by Angelina Jolie and written by Rafael Moreu.

cyberdelianyc.com•54 days ago

Yeah, RISC is good.😎

melindamazoue.bsky.social•55 days ago

The writers were right!

deebates.bsky.social•55 days ago

Angelina Jolie's CHARACTER! She's not by any means a tech genius because of her character's dialog.

reinashae.bsky.social•55 days ago

Hack the planet!

wchnt.bsky.social•55 days ago

Hack the RICH!

pedrocarvalho.es•54 days ago

📌

mattibee1123.bsky.social•55 days ago

It's not Jolie's prediction...it's her character's prediction, as written for her by the movie's writers. Please give credit is due. (And this isn't meant as an insult to Jolie or her intelligence, so don't @ me. I just want to see writers get their due.)

meganweirdon.bsky.social•54 days ago

This is very weird. Why are you crediting Angelina Jolie for a prediction that wasn't even hers? She gets credit for delivering a line for her character written by, you know, the writers of Hackers.

wired.com•55 days ago

The vast majority of people everywhere, who use tech built on it every single day, still don’t know what in the computer-geek hell a RISC architecture even is.

Maybe you, reading this, don’t know either. But you should.
https://www.wired.com/story/angelina-jolie-was-right-about-risc-architecture/

wired.com•55 days ago

RISC stands for “Reduced Instruction Set Computer.” When it emerged in the 1980s, it set off a bloodbath as its creator fought to prove it was faster and more useful than other, more complex languages. And it won—twice.
https://www.wired.com/story/angelina-jolie-was-right-about-risc-architecture/

wired.com•55 days ago

We spoke to the inventor of RISC architecture and other experts in the field about the simple but elegant language that underpins so much of modern computing.

Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/angelina-jolie-was-right-about-risc-architecture/