The Learning Matrix: lessons from the movie
This week marks the 20th anniversary of one of my favourite films ever, The Matrix. Directed by the (then) Wachowski Brothers and starring Keanu Reeves, Carrie Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving, the movie was a sensation grossing more than $460 million. It was a cyberpunk action movie with a philosophical soul (something that ended up strangling the subsequent sequels somewhat) and a killer premise – what if everything you thought was real was actually a virtual