Latest Animatrix Short Released

martyn s writes "The latest animatrix short, The Second Renaissance, Part 2 is finally out. This short is the continuation of The Second Renaissance Part 1. Taken together, these shorts document how, in the matrix universe, 'Man was the architect of his own demise.'" And here's the BitTorrent link.

Comments

Feeling a little empty after watching

[kammat]

Just finished watching it, and I'm a smidge disappointed. I thought the first half set up an excellent backstory, but here, it's just "We attacked them, we lost, we're a power source," without any kind of expansion. It feels like this half just ended the story without trying to make any details beyond what we've gleaned from the first movie. Wasn't there a first Matrix that crashed and burned due to the people not able to accept it as reality? Was there any debate at all over how long the Dark Storm would last, unless they had some way to clear it afterwards? When did the AI develop the spidery robots?

While I think the Animatrix project has been pretty damn good, I think this one has fallen way short of expectations.

Preaching?

[ackthpt]

"Taken together, these shorts document how, in the matrix universe, "Man was the architect of his own demise."

I dunno, man, I feel like I'm being preached to, again. Like:

Clean out the fridge before you eat something moldy which will make you sick.

Driving an SUV supports terrorism

Ordering french fries supports evil regimes which have WMD

If you don't pick up your room it'll lead to communist world domination.

Technology advances faster than our ability to manage it, eventually it will manage you if you don't watch out.

Some year, first the Matrix 2, then T3... What's the message here? Fear technology? Screw that.

Re:Preaching?

[mraymer]

It's interesting that you should mention terminator...

Terminator shows that technology itself is neither good nor bad. It is merely the use of it that makes it so. In the first movie, the Terminator attempts to destroy the future of the human race by killing the mother of its enemy. In the second, the same model terminator is reprogrammed to save the human race.

And another thing... In both the matrix, and Terminator... what's so bad about humans being wiped out or machines taking over control of them? Would this not be, in a sense, a form of natural selection? If machines were more fit than us to survive, and intelligent enough to exterminate us or control us, then don't they sort of deserve to take our place as the dominant form of life on this planet?

I think that a planet of machines would probably be a lot less self-destructive, and more productive, than the current one containing humans.

The machines in both the Matrix and the terminator movies want us controlled or exterminated for good reasons: we're a danger to ourselves, and everything on the planet.

"If a machine, a terminator, can learn the value of human life... maybe we can, too."

Probably not, which is why the machines are likely morally superior to us, and more worthy of the right to exist, even if they are "soulless" creations. Better that we humans die and our work live on, than we simply fade out of existence without a trace.