Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Matrix movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:42:05 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- AI... You mean artificial intelligence.
- A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines.
- We don't know who struck first, us or them.
- But we know that it was us that scorched the sky.
- Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive.
- Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
- Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need.
- There are fields, Neo, endless fields where human beings are no longer born. We are grown.
- For the longest time, I wouldn't believe it.
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