The seemingly extensive nature of the Zion Archives from The Second Renaissance conflicts with Morpheus' speech to Neo about the real world and what is known of its history in The Matrix: "We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early twenty-first century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI... A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines."