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I don't see how you can naively reboot The Matrix given that everybody knows the grand reveal. It's got to be a fundamentally new scenario

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You'll start the film assuming that it's just humans enslaved by virtuality. It won't be that at all. It'll be something much nastier

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I think this setting is promising: synkretie.net/microfiction.h (plus the thread below it)

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a borganism where nobody quite knows whether algorithm or human(s) is in charge would be more relatably scary than machines

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e.g. you deal with a human and they turn out to be a mere mouthpiece; or the other way, where just a little humanity flashes through

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but they're pulled back into the hive and the next time you meet that member they've changed completely