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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Fri Apr 2 15:07:58 1999
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 14:55:35 -0500
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>http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/18932.html
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> The Matrix: A Cyberpunk Triumph
> by Declan McCullagh
> 10:30 a.m. 2.Apr.99.PST
>
> Our future wasn't supposed to end this
> way.
>
> Humans weren't meant to spend our lives
> afloat, unwillingly, in vats of VR ooze. And
> who among us would want our
> descendants to become pod-hatched
> snacks for creepy robot arachnids?
>
> Fortunately for homo sentience, the
> future has its enemies. Chief among them
> is Neo (Keanu Reeves), who escapes his
> feel-good-but-fake virtual world and
> wakes up in the dystopian reality of the
> year 2199.
>
> What happens next makes The Matrix the
> most thrilling science fiction film to come
> along in ages.
>
> [...remainder snipped...]
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