[SoLiDUS]

[quote="Airborne Butters":945e7]what my question is; how do you tell a whole society of people 'your life is a dream but now your free' I was wondering how they do that. For a while I was thinking they just unplug everyone.[/quote:945e7]

No, hell no. They won't tell people about the nature of their existence
unless an anomaly presents itself! Something that just doesn't hold is
why the machines use humans instead of earth heat (like Zion does).
They really just wanted us out of the way after the war and conveniently,
we could also be used as a power source. That's why the Architect tells
Neo that there are levels of survival they are willing to accept if humans
died. They could use the same power source exploited by humans living
in Zion but they wouldn't be able to catter to the entire machine demand
unless they spread over a very very large area.