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ne of the most popular films of all time is the
"Matrix." Those who have seen the second in
the series, The Matrix Reloaded, will remember the

sequence where all the characters were shown to be
units of software, in an environment where every object was
a unit of software. One scene shows a woman being given
some pill, and in order to make the audience better under-
stand that both she and the pill are software, her body and the
pill are shown in silhouette composed of green digital num-
bers and letters. This visual effect, repeated in several scenes

of the film, was designed to get the audience to understand
that the characters they were seeing were actually the prod-
ucts of software.

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