Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley
by Alex Cranz from The Verge - All Posts on (#6D0YW)
Christopher Nolan at a screening of Oppenheimer at The Whitby Hotel in New York City. | Image: Roy Rochlin / Getty Images for Universal Pictures Around the time J. Robert Oppenheimer learned that Hiroshima had been struck (alongside everyone else in the world), he began to have profound regrets about his role in the creation of that bomb. At one point, when meeting President Harry S. Truman, Oppenheimer wept and expressed that regret. Truman called him a crybaby and said he never wanted to see him again. And Christopher Nolan is hoping that when Silicon Valley audiences of his film Oppenheimer (out July 21st) see his interpretation of all those events, they'll see something of themselves there, too.
After a screening of Oppenheimer at The Whitby Hotel yesterday, Nolan joined a panel of scientists and Kai Bird, one of the authors of American Prometheus, the book Oppenheimer is...