“The clouds covered the sky, and the sun was choked off permanently. Solar power was but a memory, and an advanced society had depleted most other fuel sources. Surely now the machines would surrender.”
“Bio-electric, thermal, kinetic. All could be harnessed. Everything about the human body was built to extrude power, and they could be grown so easily.”
Didn’t think I would live long enough to see the Matrix become a plausible future.
Conway’s Law in action.
Organisations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organisations.