4 Movies and series that every IT professional should watch

Technology is increasingly becoming a part of people's daily lives and as such has also become part of contemporary cultural production, with films and series that reflect this moment of humanity from the embryonic stages of technology to the present advances.

Below are some television and film (fiction only) programs that try to show a little of the new technological culture and help us get an idea of ​​where we came from and how far we can go with technological advances.

Silicon Valley Pirates

This film should be mandatory for all information and communication technology professionals because it tells us the true history of current technology from the gadgets of the founders of Microsoft and Apple to the historic enmity between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, shows how Microsoft signed their first contract with IBM to provide an operating system for Altair that at the time they did not even have the operating system was just at this time that the history of Windows began and the intrigues between Apple and Microsoft is 100% recommended watching this movie.

IT Crowd

It is a little known series mainly in Angola, IT Crowd is a series of British humor that reflects the life of information technology professionals. The characters find themselves in common situations that every IT professional lives in support of the common user often without any knowledge of how to interact with a computer. Like many IT professionals, the protagonists are sometimes undervalued and lose interest in their work, to the point of recording a tape with support guidelines, such as "have you tried to turn it on and off?" and "are you sure everything is connected correctly?" to automatically answer user questions, it is a kind of encouragement for those who work in the IT area because we know that things are not always a rosy.

The interns

This film tells the story of two crazy fortys who were fired from their jobs simply because they are no longer useful and out of date with current technologies during this fight, they get an internship nothing less than at the giant Google, and they do everything to trying to adapt to an extremely technological world, ranging from autonomous cars to smart glasses, both developed by Google. This film serves as a consolation mainly for those who think they have lost everything and have no solution to adapt technologically and at the same time it shows how the new generation should not be in comfort and run the risk of being outdated for the job market in a nutshell. film teaches us that: We are able to learn and do everything the only thing that prevents us is ourselves, and that teamwork is paramount to winning. Nobody does everything alone.

Hackers 2 - Operation Takedown 

Nowadays both ordinary people and organizations are totally concerned about your privacy, this movie tells the story of one of the greatest Crackers in the world of technology Kevin Mitnick from his success with social engineering to his capture and imprisonment with the help of the scientist Tsutomu Shimomura is a film that every professional should watch to understand how ordinary users can be the greatest risk to information security and understand how the social engineering technique works.

 We no longer exist simply as flesh and blood people our life is fully summarized as a user and password access and when this information falls into the wrong hands it can happen the least we imagine of it as professionals or aspiring IT professionals it is important to watch films linked to the technological reality to serve as the basis and sustenance for our careers.

[By]: Less Wires & OD