Ben-Hur on a computer screen

Ben-Hur, 1925 I kept looking, completely mesmerized. The teacher hit the key again, and a scene from a movie played. It was a chariot race from Ben-Hur . On a computer screen. It felt wrong. It felt like magic. The clip was less than five seconds. "One day, everyone will watch movies on computers", he said. In the 1990s, in Brazil, computers were suddenly all the rage. Fernando Henrique Cardoso's…