At the time, some eighteen years before, Louis had become a kind of media darling. The trideo had featured him in several programs, and researchers had published dozens of papers on his progress and the philosophical questions it raised. Most people who saw these shows or skimmed the literature hadn’t really understood what was going on. Frequent re-tellings of Louis’ story on "tabloid-style" news shows had embellished matters until the facts became distorted into a kind of urban myth: "Child Grows Up in Matrix." (Actually, Sly had heard rumors that there actually were children who’d been raised entirely in the Matrix. But, strictly speaking, Louis wasn't one of them.)