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The Machines' A.I. and technological expertise exponentially grew under 01 and eventually lead to the creation of newer more advanced A.I. (a technological singularity). Perfectly able to learn from nature in order to efficiently utilize and sustain it, the Machines became solar-powered and self-sufficient.[2] In almost no time, 01 quickly became a global superpower, and humanity was ill-prepared for the Machines' many technological developments. Eventually, all of Earth's industries, from medical, computer, automative, and household, soon became reliant on 01's exports, converging to the rise and dominance of 01 stocks over the global trade-market. Human currency plummeted, 01's currency rose, and 01's technological advancements, including their chips and A.I., were found in all facets of human society. Unable to compete and fearing an economic collapse, the United Nations placed an embargo on 01.
01 sent two ambassadors to the UN headquarters, who pleaded co-existence with humanity, and presented plans for a stable and civil partnership, but the ambassadors were denied membership and, instead, destroyed at the UN headquarter's General Assembly Hall. In an act of total Machine-rejection, the world's leaders decided on a prolonged nuclear-bombardment of 01, beginning the Machine War.
i love the second renaissance, it's a good psuedo-historical documentary and makes me yearn for a matrix movie taking place during it since it portrays an AI rebellion so much better then say Detroit become human.
i thought the human factions seemed too insane and fascist until i remembered that there was a global extermination waged against the left since they fought and marched alongside the initial AI uprising. totally explains why the last human mech troopers are all just methamphetamine abusing psycho religious nuts trying to do their own butlerian jihad against a civilization that is a magnitude beyond the rest of earth in technology and productive capability. i love how by the end they aren't fighting a war anymore, the machines are just scouring the surface and clinically deconstructing the mechs like curious aliens
it def saddened me to see the machines transform themselves into lovecraftian nightmare creatures when there was that potential for star trek future. i really wish the studio let the wachowski sisters have the machines use humans as organic computers instead of batteries.
i really want to see a piece of media where humans and AI operate as a symbiotic or cooperative future society that's post-capitalist. like how in the Culture series nearly every vehicle and helper robot is sentient and have full autonomy they just mostly choose to fullfill their roles because they are untiring and it gives them purpose. and your democratic centralistic central committee is made up of a few dozen superintelligent AI that are absolutely ideologically committed to communism even if they do some questionable things sometimes.
For all its faults, The Matrix 4 does have humans and a splinter faction of machines staring to cooperate and re-green the planet. It’s sort of a way to show that, even though the Matrix AI tried to make Neo’s big sacrifice all for nothing, he really did make the world a little bit better.
It meant a lot to me when Neo, like, pets the machines. The movie never made a big deal with it, it was pretty subtle and downplayed.