Maybe We Already Live in The Matrix

Essay and poetry

Ian Beckett MSc
ENGAGE
Published in
4 min readApr 14, 2024

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View from a window on tow birch trees with bare branches and a green park and buildings beyond the trees.
Pandemic Cocooning in Dublin. ©2024 Ian Beckett

Unless you have lived under a rock for the last 25 years, you will know the 1999 movie franchise hypothesis: we are all ghosts in the machine and exist in the real world to serve our AI-created overlords as a power source.

In the fictional universe of The Matrix, humans are unaware of the true reality and go about their daily lives in blissful…

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Ian Beckett MSc
ENGAGE
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Ian is a digital transformation expert who has saved companies $300m by integrating technologies and diverse global teams effectively— he is a CEO and poet