In this climactic scene from the 1995 movie Hackers, an international, multi-ethnic network of good hackers defeats the evil systems administrator played by Fisher Stevens, who is threatening to unleash a catastrophic environmental disaster by capsizing oil tankers around the world. This scene includes the film's most extravagant visualizations of what it's like to be inside a networked mainframe computer (wittily named "The Gibson" after sci-fi author William Gibson). In fact, the film is replete with 1990s era geek references including characters from Orwell's 1984 (Emmanuel Goldstein) and "real world" hackers Cereal Killer, Lord Nikon, etc. Although laughably dated in its technofetishism, Hackers is symptomatic of the mid-1990s obsession with computer networks and generational struggles around digital technology. The rag-tag team of rollerblading hackers who organize the attack on Fisher Stevens' mainframe corporate computer also epitomize the shift from mainframe to mobile/incidividual computing, as the hackers shut down transportation throughout New York City by hacking into the traffic control system and turning all lights in the city simultaneously green. In the end, it is only through the efforts of a distributed ad hoc network that the previous generation's control is overcome.