Tim Cook wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>   Of course a different question is that the entire 
>> humans-used-for-energy
>> is completely implausible because humans are poor batteries, and there
>> certainly are much efficient ways to convert natural resources to energy.
>> That's the reason why many fans decide to ignore that explanation and 
>> retcon
>> it so that the people are actually used for computing power, not as 
>> energy
>> sources. (Of course this also is an implausible explanation because it's,
>> once again, not a very energy-efficient way of getting computing 
>> power...)
> 
> Maybe the 'power' being extracted isn't electrical or purely 
> computative; imagination is something computers are traditionally bad at 
> that one would assume if it could somehow be harnessed, humans are 
> convenient sources thereof.  *shrug*

Maybe Morpheus was just wrong?

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