And don't forget the origin of both of these: a science fiction novel 
from longer longer ago called "Wine of the Dreamers" ...

Cheers,

Alan

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At 10:10 AM +0900 5/25/03, Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org wrote:
>   Hello,
>
>>  yeah, matrix is one of the best films i have ever seen (and probably will
>>  ever see). it created it's own culture, mode of looking at things around us.
>>  just like village people think that they are children of the 
>>earth, soil, the
>>  people who have seen matrix think over the *air* in a certain way.
>
>   You might want to see the movie "Ghost in the Shell," which Matrix
>borrowed its ideas.  (In fact, the Wachowski brothers said "we wanted
>to make the live-action version of Ghost in the Shell."  (And the
>comic the movie is based on...  It is one of the most information rich
>comic I've ever seen.)
>
>-- Yoshiki


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