i had another thought on the way to school yesterday - i the matrix's real world is another matrix just like we were guessing, but i'd be suprised if it were actually another one ran by machines. It seems to simple a plot twist, you know?
it could be anything! it could be russians in the 1960s, testing neo to see what the human brain can handle, it could be the same thing 40 years from now... it could be humans doing the same thing we're told machines are. imagine, one country using the other one as "battery slaves"
just kind of an interesting thought.