And really, the only scientific error you could say The Matrix made was that feeding the humans would take more energy than the computers could get out of them.
This was the only thing that bugged me about the movie...why were they wasting time trying to get power out of humans - the human brain must have a pretty decent amount of proccessing power, so wouldn't the Matrix make a much better supercomputer? (Seems like 7 billion brains all networked using an interface that can carry "too much data for the visual processors to handle" would make one hell of a beowulf cluster anyway). *And* then they could say that the Matrix simulation was a mind-trap to keep people dumb, leaving more 'cycles' for the machines programs. -Spoony I'm too spoony for my shiry...
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This was the only thing that bugged me about the movie...why were they wasting time trying to get power out of humans - the human brain must have a pretty decent amount of proccessing power, so wouldn't the Matrix make a much better supercomputer? (Seems like 7 billion brains all networked using an interface that can carry "too much data for the visual processors to handle" would make one hell of a beowulf cluster anyway). *And* then they could say that the Matrix simulation was a mind-trap to keep people dumb, leaving more 'cycles' for the machines programs. -Spoony I'm too spoony for my shiry...