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To: Pigboy who wrote (2041)	6/21/2000 3:04:00 PM
From: Joe Wagner	Respond to of 4808

Pigboy, films like Matrix are cool in that they kind of show, how, as computers evolve and our use of computers evolves, we are getting new perspectives on our real world; in many ways our real world being similar to an elaborate computer game, but I guess the laws of physics that control the electrons and protons in our world are not software driven by a higher power?? Did you see 13th Floor? That had an interesting perspective on our world. The part where the guy drives to the edge of the city to find out he is in a computer simulation and he is really just a computer program in a computer simulation. Pretty weird/cool. Made me think of the movie Pleasantville, where the kid asks what is at the end of Mainstreet, and the class said it just comes back into Mainstreet again at the other end of town. Of course our world just starts over again too if you keep driving in one direction forever (evolution of human technology and intelligence of course continues to expand our world/knowledge to encompass much more than just the sphere of planet earth). It will be interesting to see what new twists they come out with in these types of movies, as the cyberworld penetrates more deeply into our lives in the future. I like movies like this, when done well, that explore the evolution of technology to make you go, "wow", that's an angle I never thought of. As you said though, "the film had some holes in it." It did push the envelope and get you thinking though, about where all this cyber stuff is going. Joe