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The future is a pretty cool place if you ever get the chance to go there.  We get to live in houseboats, drive flying cars, go up in the space elevator and babies can tell time!

If you haven’t mastered time travel, be patient. Wait around long enough and you’ll eventually get there.

SMITH: Mr. Anderson. It seems you have been living two lives. In one life, you’re Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company, you have a social security number, you pay your taxes, and you help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias Neo. You enter the semantic framework we have created to hide the true reality of the world, you bend the rules of this model in such a way as to turn bullets into Nerf darts, and then you dodge them. To which I, and the other sentient programs in charge of policing the system say, “Hey! No fair!”