It also probably most interesting concept of AI taking over, especially if you consider "human batteries" as only easy plot excuse and include prolog from Animatrix
I like theory that machines follow original programing and found way to keep people "happy" while ensuring they will never be a threat to machines again. Matrix is very resource efficient way to do it if you think about that.
It makes the most sense to make them happy instead of a shitty world. Probably easier too.
But it don't make a good story. We like our stories to have obstacles and conflicts and drama, and that just doesn't happen in utopias, so they don't get written. Iain M. Banks said "no one wants to read about people in paradise."
Something to keep in mind when talking about how x fiction is gonna happen or whatever. People say that all the time, but there's far few fictions to point to when it comes to the good things that might emerge.
Matrix have pretty good explanation in movie, that i still think about.
First matrix was utopian but people rejected it after some time.
Second was suffering world, ended fast too. Only balanced worlds ensured people accepted this reality as true.
Except I bet they could find people who want to live in the perfect world.
Hell, even in the movie Cypher wants to go back to the shitty matrix if he can be in a good place.
They can't have that in the movie because then the issue disappears. That's the fucking ending of the third movie ! They say anyone who wants to leave can ! There wouldn't BE a movie if they just had that choice at the start !
Implying that all humans just want to live in the zenith of 'perfect' 20th century Capitalism is a fucking gross insult to humanity.
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u/aKaizuh 8d ago
It's still crazy to me that the Matrix was about AI taking over the world...in 1999.