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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes it seem creepy to anyone else that GE is using The Matrix agents to sell it's software?
Isn't GE embedded enough? These new Matrix commercials seem to be almost mocking us. "HAHA! Yes, we run everything, and there is nothing you can do about it!"
We even have talking trains.
Maybe it's just me.
clarice
(5,504 posts)quinnox
(20,600 posts)that concept does seem weird to me. "GE, proudly monitoring you, at all times!"
Atman
(31,464 posts)quinnox
(20,600 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Agent Smith ... I wonder if GE is "the cure".
Smith was an AGENT for The Matrix with great disdain for humanity. He eventually became a virus himself. There aren't any good ramifications to that character other than he met his correlative opposite, (representing us, actually) and the equation balanced.
He is really a bad choice for a spokes-agent if you really had any kind of positive message, so yes, this is troubling:
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Way to stay current.
Little_Wing
(417 posts)The first time I saw this I was completely confused... I love the Matrix and I love Hugo Weaving so yeah, it was a great "get" for them, but talk about back asswards. And to think of the money they must have spent. Oh well, it is GE: if they want Agent Smith for their spokesmodel, I suppose they can afford to do whatever they want, however unclear the message.
Riftaxe
(2,693 posts)as the chair of The Presidents Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.