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'The matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,' said the voice-over, `in early graphics programs and military ex- perimentation with cranial jacks.' On the Sony, a two-dimen- sional space war faded behind a forest of mathematically generated ferns, demonstrating the spacial possibilities of log- arithmic spirals; cold blue military footage burned through, lab animals wired into test systems, helmets feeding into fire con- trol circuits of tanks and war planes. `Cyberspace. A consen- sual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathe- matical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Un- thinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...'