No one will ever experience watching " The Matrix " the same way my friends and I (and everyone else) did back in 1999. It was a complete revelation then, and I'm not just talking about the plot twists or special effects. I mean the very concept of the Matrix—the idea of people living in a simulated reality, the notion that the world around us might not be real. These concepts weren't part of the conversation yet. Today, people use expressions like “ escaping the Matrix ” or “taking the red pil…