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Can someone explain to me if machines were so advanced why couldn't they build a solar power above the cloud instead of using humans as a battery?
by dilkhush 5y ago
Can someone explain to me if machines were so advanced why couldn't they build a solar power above the cloud instead of using humans as a battery?
- jazzyjackson 5y agoIirc “humans as a battery” was a plot-rewrite to not be so cerebral, but of course humans do not output more power than you put in, what kind of batteries are we talking about anyway, grid storage? Maybe a capacitor of some sort? no, each human was a single core of a vast supercomputer. The computer’s purpose is anyone’s guess, maybe it was searching for the ultimate question to make sense of 42… but life wants to create more life, perhaps the machines thought they were doing us a favor, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace style. I believe the architect spells this out; they tried to give us paradise but it gave us aneurysms, as living things we need something to struggle against or else we wither and die.
- cwillu 5y agoIIRC that was actually smith in the first movie, during his interrogation of morpheus “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.”