Agent Smith,"Agent Of Good," Infiltrates Your Healthcare

A child is offered a red or blue sucker by Agent Smith.
I wonder which one he wants the boy to choose?

 Seriously, tell me how this is ad comforting at all?

This WTF ad for GE software depicts a "friendly"(!) Agent Smith from the "Matrix" movies demonstrating how software can make your hospital stay better? You remember Agent Smith, don't you? Part of the self-aware computer system that was helping enslave mankind and keep them in the dark about their true origins. The guy who looks like a sinister Man In Black/CIA type. That guy.

But should it be so surprising in a pop-culture that has so recently embraced the government "suit" -- the Men in Black, the enforcers? Of course, we have the "Men In Black." We have Agent Coulson from "The Avengers," who has such a big fanbase that he's downright "cuddly." And how about all the Suits from shows like "Homeland" and movies like "Zero Dark Thirty?"

"Brillaint Machines." Like the ones in "The Matrix that enslaved Mankind.

In this environment, why not make Agent Smith a "good guy?" He's just trying to help humanity with his "brilliant machines."

You know who is truly a danger? That Neo guy. Him and Mulder. Unpredictable. Sloppy. Conspiracy freaks.