Journey to Ixtlan

It is an irony that I am watching Matrix Reloaded while writing about the abilities of computers. I spend most of my work day focused on programming databases and the front ends that are used to access them. Data collection and analysis that used to take a half a day, or couldn't ever be done, now only takes minutes. I have automated systems that do mind-numbing number crunching all day and then run complex data warehousing routines at night. This is amazing stuff but it also pales in the face of human creativity.

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Side thought... the communal dance at the beginning of Matrix Reloaded was incredibly pagan. I don't know if it proved that the people of Zion were ready to take on the machines, but boy did it prove the people knew how to party. This is not something that machines cannot do. Ahhh... (smile!)