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Its been dubbed as just another high budget sci fi. On the contrary The Matrix could very well teach us something about ourselves, and where we are headed. Hundreds of sinister, black towers fill the landscape. Each tower containing thousands of glowing orbs. Each orb containing a single human being, whom is being used as... a power plant! A scene from the highly popular science fiction film, The Matrix? You bet. The dismal future for humanity? Lets hope not. Technology appears to be growing almost exponentially. What was conceivable only by creative science fiction writer’s decades ago is now available in almost any western home. One could go as far as saying that some of these science fiction writers got it right. That they actually predicted technologies that came true. So, if we where to listen to our modern science fiction texts, what has the future got install for us? Wonder drugs that cure every disease known to man, or maybe a robot that cleans your room while doing your homework. No, it doesn’t look like it, but don’t feel disappointed; you’re yet to hear the bad news. It seems that the current science fictions predict, well, the end of humanity, as we know it. I say, as we know it, because it’s not