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Spoiler alert Your idea in (1) is quite similar to the plot twist in The Fall of Hyperion (1991). The AI's in the novel and Hyperion (1989) live within the sys
by clarkmoody 7y ago
Spoiler alert
Your idea in (1) is quite similar to the plot twist in The Fall of Hyperion (1991). The AI's in the novel and Hyperion (1989) live within the system of instant-transport "farcaster" gates. They use the human minds that are in transit through the network as their computational power, while at the same time enslaving the human race to an existence of lazy consumption rather than evolution and galactic expansion.
Porting that idea to the world of The Matrix would have been even more sinister, since the human bodies were also trapped in the vats of nutrient goo.