»Is there only one city in the matrix?«

th3 p4th wrote:

What happened to the other people..?

Is that in reference to my post? If so, please elaborate

What happened to the other people?

There were never some billions of humans? Even before the Man-Machine war?

Why would the machines lie? If they made people believe that there only 500 million people in the world why would that be any different?

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There were never some billions of humans? Even before the Man-Machine war?

As you know the Matrix was written to simulate life as it was at the end of the 20th century. At that time, only a few years ago, there was an estimated 6-7 billion people on the earth.

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Why would the machines lie? If they made people believe that there only 500 million people in the world why would that be any different?

They made blue pills believe that there were billions of people on the earth because...well, see above. I suppose there is no specific reason why they choose that amount of people other than the fact that that was the estimated human population when the Matrix was written.

Hm.. right.

What about Agent Smith saying:

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AGENT SMITH Have you ever stood and stared at it, Morpheus? Marveled at its beauty. Its genius. Billions of people just living out their lives... oblivious.

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And what about this?

th3 p4th wrote:

What happened to the other people?

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What about Agent Smith saying: Quote: AGENT SMITH Have you ever stood and stared at it, Morpheus? Marveled at its beauty. Its genius. Billions of people just living out their lives... oblivious.

At that time, Smith was still an agent of the system....so he was programmed by the Architect to continue the storyline of the Matrix. So, regardless of how many blue pills were actually plugged into the Matrx, he had to say that there were billions of people plugged in because thats what the Matrix was trying to portray

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EDIT And what about this? th3 p4th wrote: What happened to the other people?

Honestly, I am still confused on what "other people" you mean. Please explain.

There were never 7 billions of people? Even before the war?

* A) If there were, now where are the rest 6,5 billions?

* B) If there were not.. well it doesn't make sense.

So, I guess it's A. So, where are they?

Or * C) I don't understand it.

th3 p4th wrote:

There were never 7 billions of people? Even before the war? * A) If there were, now where are the rest 6,5 billions? * B) If there were not.. well it doesn't make sense. So, I guess it's A. So, where are they? Or * C) I don't understand it.

Ahhhhh....sorry.


Remember that there were 3 versions of the Matrix. The third version (choice) had five previous "ones" that reached the Architect and reinserted the prime program to reboot the Matrix. So Neo's version was Matrix v3.6. Based on what Morpheous said..."I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines. I remember that for 100 years they have send their armies to destroy us"....we can ssume that the rebooted versions (v3.1, v3.2, etc...) lasted approx 100-150 years each. And that's on top of however long the first two versions of the Matrix (v1.0, v2.0) lasted for. So I would say that it's actually closer to the year 2700-3000 in the real world.


Over the course of 700-1000 years the machines completely wiped out the human race except for the people that are plugged into the Matrix and the people they let live in Zion.

Yep, that's the answer I wanted to hear!

wouldn't some people try and leave the city at one point in their life? I'm sure the people in the matrix arn't as sad as to spend their entire life in one city, and not go outside it...

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