Ok...so not technically. When I was young, about 4th grade. I imagined a world inwhich the earth was plagued with over population. In this world, people needed to find a way to live on this planet more efficiently. So it was decided that a society of intellectual elite would be set aside to rule the planet as the rest of the common folk were put into incubation units and stacked in a giant morgue like wharehouse. The intellectual elite would be living in the "real world" while the other 20-25 billion people would live out their lives in a virtual world, completely oblivious to the real one. In this virtual world, however, there would be no procreation. Their children would be virtual...the plan was to reduce population....so since there was no physical procreation...the population of the incubation would be constantly dropping. Eventually, after maybe three generations, the world would be 25 billion less people and the earth capacity problem would be solved! All without killing, starvation, or anything. The 100 million or so intellectuals would have the planet for themselves and it would be another 200 years until the population would be a problem again. Supplant the "intellectual elite" with "AI" and the population cap problem with "lack of natural resources" and voila you have my idea. Minor details, and hey, i was only a kid!

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ur musta been 1 weird 4th grader

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LOL, redpill, coudn't have put it better myself. But really, what did you do with your little story thing?

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Yeah, that's 9 years old. I am surprised you didn't hurt yourself thinking that deep that early.

I think you should do the same thing that the guy that says 'American Idol' was his idea. Sue for $300 million.

-WC-

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how smart were you??

Actually I was a little pimp in elementary school...to bad my elementary school charm doesn't help me so much in college HAHA... I did read a lot of books (Michael Critchton mostly) and I did dabble in Calvin & Hobbes...maybe that is why I had such an overactive imagination ;-) hehe

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I wrote it all down on my little IBM PC jr in a crappy DOS word processor that is in some crap heap some where

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH the land of free thought???

Hi,



Many years ago I stumbled across a very interesting (I think) and quite amusingly authored essay by Henry Sturman.

Ever since "The Matrix" I've often wondered if that particular essay might, in fact, have been part of the motivation for making the movie. (Even though I dont see any date/timestamps directly in the document, I believe that I read it, for the first time, several years before "The Matrix" was "programmed").

Please notice that I'm _NOT_ saying that the essay was really the inspiration for the movie/story - just that I wonder...

Anyway, you can still get to read the essay at the URL below, if you like:

http://www.henrysturman.com/english...es/reality.html



The Guffer

Why does that Zionite want to kill Neo?:confused:


A Hungarian boy (12)

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