Re: Belief - I'd like to share this item with you.

On 11/03/2024 17:14, Richmond wrote:

Ernest Major <{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk> writes:

 >>[Origin of "The Matrix"]

I interpreted wiktionary as saying the sense 11 was a new
sense inspired by the film - so clearly not the meaning that inspired
the choice of the title for the film.

 Maybe, but it cites 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer, for sense 11, so
such a sense must have existed before 1999.

It may have been mentioned, possibly by me,
that _Doctor Who_ story "The Deadly Assassin"
in 1976 presented "The Matrix", a computer
which contains memories of the Doctor's people,
"Time Lords".  It's experienced as a rather
dangerous "virtual reality".
William Gibson used "matrix" for - what being
inside the internet looks like, basically.
A space in which most online resources have a
visual representation, and you fly around
(virtually) like Superman to get to the data
that you want to deal with.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer>
mentions that Gibson's short story
"Burning Chrome" used the term in 1982.
"Burning" is story slang for hacking, and Chrome
is a person in the story whose money, not
personality, is under attack.