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** COMPLETELY UNAUTHORIZED ** This thought-provoking examination of "The Matrix" explores the technological challenges, religious symbolism, and philosophical dilemmas the film presents. Essays by renowned scientists, technologists, philosophers, scholars, social commentators, and …

Taking the Red Pill

Science, Philosophy and the Religion in the Matrix

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    288 pages

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    3 November 2003

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Summary

Dive into the world of The Matrix ahead of the 2021 release of Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections!

Taking the Red Pill is a thought-provoking, mind-expanding thrill ride through The Matrix, examining the technological challenges, religious symbolism, and philosophical dilemmas the film presents.

Renowned scientists, technologists, philosophers, scholars, social commentators, and science fiction authors provide engaging and provocative perspectives:

  • Inventor and technologist Ray Kurzweil reveals the technological trends that make The Matrix more prophetic than anyone suspects

  • Sun chief scientist Bill Joy’s classic essay “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us” describes the horrors that await as these technologies are developed

  • Yale philosopher and occasional standup comic Nick Bostrom calculates the odds that we are in the Matrix

  • Best-selling science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer explores the history of artificial intelligence in science fiction culminating with The Matrix

  • Economist and philosopher of science Robin Hanson shows how we are controlled by a power as malevolent as that of the Matrix

    Taking the Red Pill will change how you view The Matrix—and the world around you.

    • Book Details

    ISBN-13:9781932100020
    ISBN-10:1932100024
    Author:David Gerrold, Glenn Yeffeth
    Publisher:BenBella Books
    Imprint:Smart Pop
    Format:Paperback
    Number of Pages:288
    Edition:1st
    Release Date:3 November 2003
    Weight:335g
    Dimensions:154mm x 229mm
    Series:Smart Pop
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    About The Author

    David Gerrold

    Glenn Yeffeth is the editor of several anthologies in the Smart Pop series, including Anthology at the End of the Universe, Farscape Forever!, Five Seasons of Angel, Navigating the Golden Compass, Seven Seasons of Buffy, Taking the Red Pill, and What Would Sipowitz Do?

    David Gerrold is the author of the Hugo and Nebula award–nominated The Man Who Folded Himself and When HARLIE Was One, books that quickly established him in the hard science fiction genre during the 1970s. He also wrote “The Trouble with Tribbles” episode of Star Trek, voted the most popular Star Trek episode of all time, and is the author of the popular Star Wolf, Dingillian, and Chtorr series. He lives in Northridge, CA.

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