I think that was the original idea but they changed it to energy because they thought the audience wouldn’t understand the CPU stuff.
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GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 week agoI thought it also used them for neural CPU cycles but maybe I’m misremembering
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 week ago
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No, that’s exactly the original thing. “Wetware”, basically… But test audiences got upset and confused, so it was changed to “batteries.”
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 1 week ago
The batteries things was also Morpheus’s explanation, and not necessarily a definitive fact of the fictive universe. Morpheus could have been talking out of his ass, or deliberately over-simplifying for the benefit of Neo, who he knew was kind of a dumbass.