The plot supposes that humans live in vats (cubicles) many years in the future, being fed false sensory information (bad releases of SolidWorks) by a giant virtual reality computer (the Matrix or SolidWorks Corp). The perpetrators of this horror are machines (SolidWorks programmers) of the future who use humans as a source of power (Beta testing). Humans (Beta testers) are literally farmed.
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