10 Awesome Movie Inventions (That Would Suck In Real Life)

Aside from cool clothes and bending physics at will, the Matrix also gives users the ability to learn anything you want in a relative short amount of time. Being plugged into the Matrix with a martial arts program for a few hours will result in anyone becoming the next Grandmaster of martial arts.  

Give it a few days and all the information on mankind could be uploaded into anyone's brain with a click of a button. Whilst this is useful, time-saving, and freakishly awesome on many levels, there is a major limitation to learning so much in such a relative short amount of time.

Hard-drives can hold a lot of data, however there is always a limit. Once that limit is reached, no new data can be added and the hard drive's speed won't be as crisp as before. Using that hard-drive analogy, the human brain is very similar in that it also can only hold so much before things start going down south. 

Scientists believe that this is the reason why the elderly have memory issues, not because of wear and tear but because of a lifetime's worth of memories. The bottom line is that everyone could potentially be much smarter than Stephen Hawking in a few days, but at the cost of being slower than a sloth on tranquilizers for a lifetime.