I can’t believe The Matrix is 24 years old now…

  • Neato@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The Matrix was designed around a specific period of time. I imagine the machines just deleted most references to new technology being invented and kept it at turn of the millennium.

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      1 year ago

      “Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.”

      “Suffering and misery? So why not design it around the 2010-2020s?”

      “That was also tried, but was similarly rejected for having too much suffering and misery. Nobody believed it was real.”