… yeah so that was a thing that bothered me, "human batteries… like… even if that was possible, there's no way even billions of people could generate as much po

… yeah so that was a thing that bothered me, "human batteries… like… even if that was possible, there's no way even billions of people could generate as much power as a handful of nuclear reactors… a more sensible idea would be if they were using our brains as CPUs in a massive network, like [spoiler] in Hyperion…" And years later, I learned that was exactly what the earlier drafts of the script said. They changed it because the studio execs thought the audience would find the concept confusing.