fromThe New Yorker
1 hour agoThe High Femme Dystopia of Star Amerasu
If the recent embrace of seemingly-and only seemingly-autonomous machines is any indication, something much less chic than the future premised in " The Matrix " awaits us. During the 1999 film's sequence of down-the-rabbit-hole scenes, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) flips the channel on the late-nineties metropolis as Neo (Keanu Reeves) knows it, revealing it to be a "computer-generated dream world" that pacifies a dozing human race whose bioelectricity is extracted by machines, for machines, circa 2197.
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