The peril of being older is that everything "new" reminds you of something else.<p>Synapse<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/7/17827992/antitrust-tim-robbins-bill-gates-microsoft-retrospective" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/7/17827992/antitrust-tim-rob...</a><p><pre><code> Antitrust, released in 2001, is an extremely dot-com-era take on the conspiracy thriller genre. The film starts with hotshot programmer Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillippe) getting recruited by tech tycoon Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), who runs a massive and ubiquitous computing company called NURV.
Just like Microsoft, NURV is being investigated for antitrust violations, although it’s less clear why. (We learn vaguely that NURV is infamous for cloning software, and that it’s building some kind of media empire with hardware like set-top boxes.) Where Microsoft was once referred to as the “Death Star,” billionaire philanthropist Winston complains about websites calling him Satan. But Milo’s job is to make NURV far more powerful than Microsoft ever was since NURV is about to launch a data network called Synapse that will link “every communication device on the planet.”
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Q. Is there a new Gary Winston in town? :-O