scoff all you want, this was the plot of The Matrix!
(the original script was written with the sensible "using humans as a biological computer" angle but they worried audiences wouldn't get that newfangled computer thing in the basically prehistoric year of 1999, so they changed it to be humans generating power which... isn't how thermodynamics works!)
(the original script was written with the sensible "using humans as a biological computer" angle but they worried audiences wouldn't get that newfangled computer thing in the basically prehistoric year of 1999, so they changed it to be humans generating power which... isn't how thermodynamics works!)