Battery by B&S

This was a Stephen and Brandon project:

Agent Smith noted with disdain once that we, humans, are a cancer to the planet. We move from place to place consuming all the natural resources like locusts, and then move on to the next area to scourge. Although we can’t really argue with Agent Smith’s assertion, we think that he, and many of the machines like him, believes that this is a weakness on the part of humanity. However, we believe that this is one of our greatest characteristics. If it were not for our innate ability to adapt to our surroundings, not only physically but emotionally, we would have perished as surely as the sun’s last rise on earth all those years ago. Further, the machines were simultaneously forced to “move on” and adapt when we blotted out the sun and deprived them of power. Thus the Matrix was created to enslave humans (honestly though, who is serving whom? The machines wait on the humans in the Matrix hand-and-foot.). Agent Smith fails to see the connection—but machines pillage and adapt much like humans…with one notable exception. They consistently remain one step behind humanity. Still, even in this age of “artificial intelligence,” the intelligence remains just that, artificial. The machines, for all their achievements, are still capable of little more than mimicking and learning from human behavior. They can fool a person into thinking that they are human, like the Agent Smiths of the Matrix regularly do, but in the end, they are only capable of fooling a person. This is the action of liars and frauds: to depend on the deception of people. They are still not capable of being human. There is no doubt in my mind that human beings will eventually triumph over the machines—the irony is that we will almost certainly employ/enslave other machines in the process. We will emerge from the ashes again.

I think my battery just died...