I was in college and married, and one of my close friends, Mark (a fellow CS undergrad), said, “There’s this cool-looking science fiction movie opening next week; wanna go?” So we did (myself, my (ex)wife, Mark, his (ex)wife). I was expecting another cheesy spaceships-and-bad-costumes film, the kind that I had grown…

For those of us old enough to have seen ANH in theaters, I think it is because it was a classic good vs. evil story AND looked amazingly real AND is was in space! For me, I attribute it in large part to how at the time, nothing could compare to it. I think of my kids perception of the new SW movie vs. my perception of…