It’s almost Christmas, so naturally I was thinking about The Matrix. (It’ll make sense; I promise.) In the 1999 blockbuster, Neo (Keanu Reeves) discovers that he is living in a computer-generated simulation of the real world. His body is trapped in a creepy pink pod along with billions of other humans while his mind lives inside the simulation.  This virtual world—the Matrix—was created by sentient computers as a way of turning humans into batteries.  The Matrix is a prison … Read More