The Matrix: Tomorrow May Be Different

It is a smug cliché - that you alone (or perhaps with a few friends) ¬happen to see through the conditioning that has turned all the rest into passively obedient sheep. Cyberpunk plays to this image, by portraying a lone individual ¬or perhaps just a few - scurrying like rats under the dark towers of the ruling masters. In The Matrix, the masters are evil computers. In Johnny Mnemonic they are the rulers of faceless corporations. In The X Files it is a government conspiracy. What these myth...