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Re:A major milestone has been reached in our Brain Preservat... by vidarh on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @10:38AM (#9605148)
That would have been a somewhat less ridiculous explanation for The Matrix. "Oh, those vats full of humans? They're our neural network cloud".
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Re:A major milestone has been reached in our Brain Preservat... by jessaustin on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @11:38AM (#9605494)
Yes, and considering that The Fall of Hyperion was published in 1990, that scenario should have been obvious to the Wachowskis.
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Re:A major milestone has been reached in our Brain Preservat... by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @03:53PM (#9607219)
It was actually what they intended, before the execs told them audiences wouldn't understand it.
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Re:A major milestone has been reached in our Brain Preservat... by vidarh on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @06:14PM (#9614767)
Not surprising, considering I had relatively techie friends that were absolutely mindblown by concepts like pervasive virtual reality (never mind taking the next step beyond the Matrix to "uploading"). I was utterly taken aback at the realisation of just how foreign ideas like that were to people that weren't steeped in SF.
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Re:A major milestone has been reached in our Brain Preservat... by jessaustin on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @08:04PM (#9608471)
"Humans are used as batteries."

"Humans are used as computer chips."

Neither statement really makes any sense without some creative thinking. Execs are weird.

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