When a sci-fi movie has some kind of alien race or craft and it turns out the whole age of microelectronics is based on what we've been able to reverse-engineer from their technology. It's...
When a sci-fi movie has some kind of alien race or craft and it turns out the whole age of microelectronics is based on what we've been able to reverse-engineer from their technology. It's basically implying we're just a bunch of idiots and humans could never have come up with the technology we have on our own, yet those same movies also portray us as smart enough to beat the aliens at their own game and use their tech in some clever way to save the world.
When a sci-fi movie has some kind of alien race or craft and it turns out the whole age of microelectronics is based on what we've been able to reverse-engineer from their technology. It's basically implying we're just a bunch of idiots and humans could never have come up with the technology we have on our own, yet those same movies also portray us as smart enough to beat the aliens at their own game and use their tech in some clever way to save the world.