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Film·1999AI-generated draftSource unchecked

The Matrix

Lana & Lilly Wachowski

Humanity builds a machine intelligence, loses a war to it, and survives as a farmed power source kept docile inside a simulation it cannot detect; the film narrates the war in a paragraph and the captivity in detail.

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Turning point: 2000–2199Original source
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