1st August 2005, 12:02 PM
When Rare is finished they will have accidently invented the Matrix and everyone will willingly shirk off their mortal shells to live in all eternity in the digital world upon a computer that can self repair and is solar powered. That is, until someone remembers that the world is inevitably to be consumed in the crucible of the sun in red giant stage. At that point someone will be asking if we left any robots in the real world so we can work on some sort of.. um, escape.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)