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Re:My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a gene... by imron on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:40PM (#22131736)
> It would've made more sense to say that they were using the human brains as CPUs

That was apparently the original plot before studio executives decided it would be too difficult for audiences to understand.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv...

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Re:My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a gene... by neaden on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:23PM (#22132259)
This doesn't really seem to indicate that was ever the plan. There is an offhand mention of a different plan, a Neil Gaiman story that I've read and has to do with aliens and is very different, and a novelization that doesn't actually exist.
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