Owen snorted. "Which is entirely beside the point. Think of the story-stream as the Matrix. You're one person in the Matrix - one person, living inside the story-stream. I'm more like one of the programs - the ones that can change and be different people. And fan-girls are like the robots that use the Matrix, and the FLA are Agent Smith and Niobe rolled into one, and ten times more annoying."
Well, at least from his point of view, and as close as he could get with the Matrix metaphor.