So how much electricity & btu's does a cow generate? Wouldn't it have been more productive to just harvest energy from cows instead? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IojqOMWTgv8]The Matrix - Battery - YouTube[/ame] Or do you think that the machines ended up developing some sort of consciousness about the link between humans and energy?
All children long to kill their parents. Plus it's really not a case of the science. There's a very good reason that humans wind up stuck in battery farms and VR simulators and it's all their (well, our) fault. Suffice to say the machines couldn't use anything other than humans.