You know the name Oppenheimer. You probably know he was involved with the atomic bomb. Do you know much more than that? Christopher Nolan, whose latest film is called, simply, Oppenheimer, kinda hopes not. "The people who know nothing," he tells us, "are going to get the wildest ride." Earlier this year, our executive editor, Maria Streshinsky (who actually does know quite a bit about Oppenheimer; her mom coauthored a book about the guy) went down to Los Angeles to talk to Nolan. Nolan is an old friend of the magazine's—he guest-edited a special issue back in 2014. Although Oppenheimer isn't as WIRED-y as, say, Interstellar, Maria suspected it had something to say about the present. Maybe even the future. She wasn't wrong. Pretty quickly, she and Nolan get into the big question of the day, AI—which is often compared, of course, to nuclear weapons. Nolan has a lot to say on the matter, none of it obvious. He must be our most scientifically minded filmmaker, always challenging us to see reality a bit differently. Oppenheimer is a movie about a man. It's a movie about science. It might also, he tells Maria, be a horror film. Good luck to us all.—Jason Kehe | Senior Editor |
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