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Halt and Catch Fire - Season 4
The early 1980s was the early heyday of the technological revolution. Silicon Prairie, centered on Dallas, was one area in the US where much of the activity in this sector was happening. There were a few 'name' corporate players in each sector, such as International Business Machines (IBM) in personal computers (PC), Xerox in document management, and Texas Instruments (TI) in semiconductors. Standard corporate practice was to improve technology gradually and charge customers a premium for successive technologically advanced models of products. Within this framework, there were many dreamers, often working in smaller companies or for themselves, who wanted their small, or not so small, piece of the pie, whether it be for fortune and/or fame, the latter often in having a lasting legacy. Those dreams also varied, from only doing things better than their competitors, however small, to producing things that were revolutionary for the time, that made the general public go 'wow', as were the rationale for those dreams.
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August 20, 2017
The cast is at their very best. They know their characters so well it feels less like watch TV than peering into history itself. These are the people I wish had been responsible for bringing us into the modern technical age.
August 20, 2017
It's quite possible that the whole of Halt and Catch Fire is even better than the sum of its parts.
August 16, 2017
Halt and Catch Fire is an urgent story of rehumanization for a cold, wired culture. Plug in now.
August 18, 2017
Entering the final season, the AMC drama is running with the precision of swiss quartz.
August 20, 2017
The thing Halt and Catch Fire is so clear-eyed about that many other tech-based stories miss is how technology doesn't make people different. Instead, people take technology and bend it to their will.
August 20, 2017
Halt And Catch Fire welds character and inspiration into something exhilarating.
August 18, 2017
The show has always focused more on the process. Its visual style manages to charge meetings, coding sessions, or a group of people standing in front of a whiteboard with creative potential.
