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What I learned the last few years is that the matrix was pretty prescient, except the silly idea of a human as a battery. Instead, a human can view X ads and sp
by version_five 4y ago
What I learned the last few years is that the matrix was pretty prescient, except the silly idea of a human as a battery. Instead, a human can view X ads and spend $Y per day, and it's that capacity that companies want to harvest with minimal outside distractions.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoAll you need to game that system is to buy the products of your advertisers to make it seem like the campaigns convert.
- lighioaia 4y agoI see the battery as subtle metaphor: when people do not pay attention (sleep) their vitals are used by somebody else (are batteries).
- sircastor 4y agoI saw somewhere that the original script for the matrix described it as using human’s brains for processing power, rather than the battery thing. Supposedly the studio thought the idea was too much for audiences.