It was originally going to be that people were used for processing power, but a producer or exec didn’t think people would understand so they asked for it to be changed.
Which is why it could have been fixed in the Animatrix or later movies after the Wakoski’s no longer had to listen to execs.
“Humans are batteries.”
Neo, “That’s what they told you but this is the real truth.”
Revealing layers of truth was a recurring motif in the movies so it would have fit perfectly. Instead of ignoring it or fixing it, The Animatrix expanded on the absurdity.
They certainly could have. They apparently said that they didn’t really care about that plot point. If I remember correctly, it didn’t matter to them why the machines did what they did. It was just there to get the story they wanted to tell started.
I agree it would have been better the other way. People as batteries is really dumb.
Aw, this would’ve set up our gen-AI present much more accurately.
Human bodies as datacenters? How long til Bezos, Gates, and Zuckerberg figure that one out?
21st century slavery in the making. Promises of fat contracts, lots of money to send back home to family, careers in the tech sector. All the while it’s the dead being fed to the living to process data need for the rich to live in an immersive fantasy land.
It was originally going to be that people were used for processing power, but a producer or exec didn’t think people would understand so they asked for it to be changed.
Which is why it could have been fixed in the Animatrix or later movies after the Wakoski’s no longer had to listen to execs.
“Humans are batteries.”
Neo, “That’s what they told you but this is the real truth.”
Revealing layers of truth was a recurring motif in the movies so it would have fit perfectly. Instead of ignoring it or fixing it, The Animatrix expanded on the absurdity.
They certainly could have. They apparently said that they didn’t really care about that plot point. If I remember correctly, it didn’t matter to them why the machines did what they did. It was just there to get the story they wanted to tell started.
I agree it would have been better the other way. People as batteries is really dumb.
Aw, this would’ve set up our gen-AI present much more accurately.
Human bodies as datacenters? How long til Bezos, Gates, and Zuckerberg figure that one out?
21st century slavery in the making. Promises of fat contracts, lots of money to send back home to family, careers in the tech sector. All the while it’s the dead being fed to the living to process data need for the rich to live in an immersive fantasy land.
not a movie, but “CAPRICA” uses a dead girls brain patterns as the basis for AI for the cylon race(outside of the final 5 and the humanoid cylons)
Also the product placement money.