In the “real” world of The Matrix, the year is sometime around 2199.At some point, humanity developed superintelligent machines that took over, and humanity now occupies a sunless, hypermachinised wasteland where the vast majority of human beings are being exploited on an almost unfathomable scale. Harvested for energy in endless fields, deracinated and kept in isolated pods, their only salvation is the fact that most of them are unaware of their situation, distracted as they are by a simulation called the Matrix. Although humanity now occupies a sunless, hypermachinized wasteland exploited on an unfathomable scale, the fact that most are unaware of their situation due to the Matrix simulation offers them a semblance of salvation.

Source: https://dellsystem.me/pdfs/SO427-matrix.pdf

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