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All but War Is Simulation: The Military-Entertainment Complex

2000; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 8; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/con.2000.0022

1080-6520

Tim Lenoir,

Simulation Techniques and Applications

The box office smash from spring 1999, The Matrix, projects a vision of a world in which "real" world objects are actually simulations emerging from streams of bits. Finding himself pursued on a rooftop with no escape except a helicopter, the movie's hero asks his guide, "Can you fly that thing?" "Not yet," she says, as she calls their home base systems administrator for software that uploads just in time.