Why nostalgia for ‘80s action movies is back

With the current AI developments, it's great to watch Arnie melt down a rogue cyborg and beat Skynet.

THREATS from Moscow. Rampant inflation. A deadly disease resisting eradication. Worries about the replacement of American workers. Sly. Ahnold.

Looking at the news of the past several years, we might think we’ve been rocketed back to the 1980s, just with less neon and fewer Rubik’s Cubes. History is repeating itself, and not only through fractured politics and the threat of a new Cold War.