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Another focal point of the collaboration, of course, is a shared love for the source material, and a sense of its renewed importance in 2023. First released in 1999, The Matrix made a number of prophecies about humanity’s techno-dystopian future, from mind uploading, to the ubiquity of artificial intelligence, to the blurry lines between real life and a simulated “reality”. A couple of decades later, we're seeing some of these prophecies come true around us in real-time — people are losing themselves in the metaverse, forming relationships with Al chatbots, and wearing tiny little sunglasses. Even our politics revolves around a key image from the Wachowskis’ sci-fi universe — the red pill.