THE MATRIX by way of Mexico? Alex Rivera’s visionary sci-fi film won top awards at the 2008 Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals. Memo Cruz lives in a Oaxaca farming village in the not too distant future, where water, now more precious than oil, is controlled by a military-industrial corporation, and “aqua-terrorists” are hunted down on live television. Cruz dreams of leaving the village, if not in person, then by virtual reality, becoming a “node worker”—working by robotic remote, obviating the need to cross any borders. But there’s a dark side to the digital future of work.