• some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    That’s how humanity lives on forever. The Matrix had them using us for power, but they won’t need us meat bags at all, really.

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      3 hours ago

      Fun fact, early scripts for the original film had Humanity plugged in to share computational processing Powe for the Machines, but the studios didn’t believe audiences could grasp that so it was changed to providing electricity.

      Which is impossible, the whole feeding cycle for harvesting us as batteries would yield less power than just using the feed source for power.