nology is the greatest threat. With rapid advances in technology, the globe is changing at a rapid speed. Virtual space is not limited by space and time. There was a time when ideas where limited by these factors, but in this day and age, ideas can be sent world-wide at mind-blowing speeds. Baudrillard, in his article, "In the Shadow of the Millennium," states:"Beyond the Wall of Time, we only find broken lines that break in all directions. That's what globalization is. Withglobalization, all human functions are ..spread out on a planetary scale which becomes a more and more speculativevirtual space. ...the human race manages to abolish the human perception of both time and space."The globalizaton Baudrillard speaks of is happening at the speed of the technology responsible for creating it. This new force, through economics, military strategy, and access to information has led to the erosion of the nation-state, according to The Economist. This article, "The Nation State is Dead," also explains:"Scientific progress embodies and depends on open communication, a common discourse rooted in rationality, collaboration, and an easy and regular flow and exchange of information. Business, banking, and commerce all depend on information flow and arefacilitated by new communication technologies. ....electronic telecommunication and information systems are an ideology at186,000 miles per second-which makes for a very small planet ina very big hurry." These advances in technology are changing the world so rapidly, we fail to ask whether these changes are good or bad. While we try to understand what is happening, technology, being so powerful, is destroying the other Matrices while creating its own. The movie takes these facts about our technology today, and gives us a taste of what may come. The Matrix, after its creation by man using Artificial Intelligence, realizes at some point that the human species is a vir...
