Are WE Prediciting a Bleak New World

Hundreds of sinister, black towers fill the landscape. Each tower containing thousands of glowing orbs. Each orb containing a single human being, whom is being used as... a power plant!

A scene from the highly popular science fiction film, The Matrix? You bet.

The dismal future for humanity? Lets hope not.

Technology appears to be growing almost exponentially. What was conceivable only by creative science fiction writer’s decades ago is now available in almost any western home. One could go as far as saying that some of these science fiction writers got it right. That they actually predicted technologies that came true.

So, if we where to listen to our modern science fiction texts, what has the future got install for us? Wonder drugs that cure every disease known to man, or maybe a robot that cleans your room while doing your homework.

No, it doesn’t look like it, but don’t feel disappointed; you’re yet to hear the bad news. It seems that the current science fictions predict, well, the end of humanity, as we know it.

I say, as we know it, because it’s not

This is the concept that thrills almost every audience member. Since the rebels have martial arts abilities loaded into them, and they know the matrix isn’t real. They can do almost anything, like jump from tower to tower, or run up walls with ease.

This, combined with the fighting gives one of the greatest visual effects ever. Wowing audiences and becoming one of the largest popular culture icons of its time (some scenes have already being comically redone by many other films). It also means that any ideas of The Matrix get shown to the wider audience visually.

These things can be taken in many numbers of ways. It does seem, however, that The Matrix itself has its own religious views. Neo himself is ‘the One’, which can be identified with Jesus ‘the Anointed One’. And like Jesus, he ends out being able to heal people. Neo’s female counterpart, Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) has the same name as the Trinity of god, for the father, son, and the Holy Ghost. Then there’s the Rebel leader, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), who has the very same name as the Greek god of dreams. It doesn’t seem like The Matrix identifies with one single religion, rather a unity of them all. Then there’s the fate concept.

However, apes and upper class humans, is one thing (though the 1984 rebellion failed and it doesn’t look like where getting back earth in Planet of the Apes either). But how would you fight the rulers of our dystopia when they happen to be robots. Robots are smarter, almost indestructible, can mass-produce themselves and tend to have a huge self-ego. We are no match.

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