https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/02/tesla-vs-lucid-heres-how-the-ev-rivals-are-and-arent-alike.html
Competition is a good thing, especially for technology.
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/inside-infinite-february-2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b80eLC0lHc4 So many people would like to jump right into the Halo realm but unfortunately, the Holodeck like versions are still a ways off.
https://halo.fandom.com/wiki/Halo_Infinite
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/halo-infinite-now-releasing-fall-2021/1100-6485257
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news?categoryName=Halo%20Infinite
https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/simulation-movies-2021
Perhaps because a lot of people are interested in pondering the nature of reality.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/users/rizwan_virk
Rizwan+Virk really knows his stuff and that's by design, of course.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Matrix
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Nisqually_earthquake
https://pnsn.org/education/pnw-earthquakes/notable/nisqually
https://www.eeri.org/lfe/pdf/usa_nisqually_preliminary_report.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b0Pt-k1hGo
Lord Huron really knows how to work the retro vibe in some of their videos. The cool thing is, that it's done with only a small amount of digital special effects.
Digital ghosts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkred/comments/jwhb6k/digital_ghosts/
https://medium.com/swlh/growing-up-online-digital-ghosts-105113dc51a3
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VirtualGhost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(1995_film)#Plot
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A living person vs a digital entity.
From analogue twins to digital doubles.
How Hollywood Twins Scenes Have Evolved Over 100 Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEbHATMvgik , https://www.youtube.com/@Insider/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_(2019_film)#Plot
https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-doppelgngers-fool-advanced-antifraud-tech
How To Live With Your Digital Doppelgängers https://daily.jstor.org/how-to-live-with-your-digital-doppelgangers Digital Doppelgängers may share your name, but you can still claim your own digital identity.
https://aiforum.org.nz/2019/03/15/digital-doppelgangers-now-a-reality/
https://securelist.com/digital-doppelgangers/90378/
The Digital_Twin
https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/digital-twin
https://www.ibm.com/think/news/ai-simulations-stanford-research
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-explainers/what-is-digital-twin-technology
Nine Inch Nails - Copy of a ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA281OuU3rk , https://www.youtube.com/@NIN/videos
Of course various people like to use Tor for many reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Tor_Browser , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Improved_security
https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/tor-browser-work-relate-using-vpn
https://www.torproject.org/download
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.torbrowser&hl=en_CA&gl=US
Its nice to see that this Tor article is active at, theguardian.com/international ,
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/05/tor-beginners-guide-nsa-browser
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Tor+Browser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century
It was as if JV could see into the future or sense various future scenarios.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century#Predictions_for_1960
http://www.unmuseum.org/verne.htm
24 years after JV wrote that book, Gustave_Eiffel is able to start construction of a 300m tower.
https://www.restaurants-toureiffel.com/en/jules-verne-restaurant.html
| Construction started | 28 January 1887 |
|---|---|
| Completed | 15 March 1889 |
| Opening | 31 March 1889 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower 1889
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower#Construction 300m
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_the_Paris_region
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitage_Plaza 320m
It was as if JV was writing about glass and steel towers such as these.
However, they end up being constructed in the early 21st century, not in the 20th.
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/complex/367
https://www.archilovers.com/projects/17528/hermitage-plaza.html
https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/alphaville 1965 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058898
"Alphaville combines the genres of dystopian science fiction and film noir. There are no special props or futuristic sets; instead, the film was shot in real locations in Paris, the night-time streets of the capital becoming the streets of Alphaville, while modernist glass and concrete buildings (that in 1965 were new and strange architectural designs) represent the city's interiors. The film is set in the future but the characters also refer to twentieth-century events; for example, the hero describes himself as a Guadalcanal veteran." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)#Legacy_and_influences
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Alphaville
"In New York you can forget, forget how to sit still
Tell yourself you will stay in
But it's down to Alphaville" https://www.u2.com/lyrics/92
https://www.u2songs.com/demos/alphaville , https://www.youtube.com/c/U2/videos
"The song debuted on 19 October 2000 at the ManRay club in Paris, as part of a promotional concert for the October 30 release of All That You Can't Leave Behind." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_(U2_song)#Live_performances , https://www.u2gigs.com/show1145.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i78n3mhDwC8 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTPP6I-_xZ4
http://www.roomonethousand.com/eiffels-apartment-and-the-architecture-of-dreams
Jules_Verne wrote about a time when there would be 300m+ towers in Paris and Gustave_Eiffel was the one to start the first of those magnificent towers.
https://www.restaurants-toureiffel.com/en/jules-verne-restaurant/the-restaurant.html
"The tricks used to create this base means visitors only see a fraction of its sprawl."
https://www.pcgamer.com/no-mans-skys-very-own-rapture-is-too-big-to-visit
The creators of NMS knew that they would need to have the biggest game environment possible.
It's the game that keeps growing into a vast scale and vision.
"There's a robot that lives inside No Man's Sky that nobody outside of the development team may ever see, because its entire purpose is to fly to each of the game's 18 quintillion worlds, take short videos and document its interstellar travels as a series of animated GIFs.
Developer Hello Games built this probe because, at its core, No Man's Sky is so massive that its statistically insignificant team of four human artists can't control or oversee its creation. At best, they can audit some of what already happened and adjust accordingly.
So, instead of pure human oversight, No Man's Sky is governed by what art director Grant Duncan calls a team of thousands of "mindless idiots" — the computer code and algorithms that take the structure that he and his team created and turned that into a universe."
https://www.polygon.com/2015/3/3/8140343/no-mans-sky-space-probes-gdc-quintillion-worlds
August 2021 marks the 5th anniversary since the release of No_Man's_Sky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man's_Sky#Gameplay
https://nerdist.com/article/fictional-watercraft-size-comparison-video
So many times what was once just in a Sci-Fi context eventually becomes reality.
https://nerdist.com/article/science-fiction-starships-size-comparison-video
Leonardo_da_Vinci was certainly one of the worlds great visionaries.
https://www.livescience.com/49210-leonardo-da-vinci-futuristic-inventions.html
https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/leonardo-da-vincis-genius-visions-future-sketches
How Leonardo da Vinci made a "satellite" map in 1502 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gEwEcYnewE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGgkF7fh4MA
Now that 2020 is over it's time to really see what others think about CP 2077.
...Done Defending Cyberpunk 2077 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohARQ9kUCa4
The general consensuses is that its over hyped and should have been a much better build or design.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/style/cyberpunk-2077-video-game-disaster.html
A game that's already in need of a reboot, or as some say, it would have to be totally rebuilt. Bit by bit with a much better arrangement of electrons and photons.
http://retrophaseshift.com/2020/12/18/cyberpunk-2077-struggles-of-a-genre
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Cyberpunk+2077
It seems that there has almost always been some people that are more curious about pondering, The Nature of Reality. (TNOR)
Of course some people have such fear of the unknown, they would rather humans be like content pet mice in a cage. Is the human herd nothing more than someones lab experiment?
If this world is part of a cosmic program or simulation, then it might be just as much of a school than a prison.
Since ancient times several people have believed that this world & life are the products of a cosmic creator or an ET gamer.
The science approach isn't about looking for a creator, it's more about unraveling how everything works. As computer simulations become more advanced and realistic, more people will start to consider that this world is part of a cosmic simulation.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Cosmic+MATRIX
On 13 December 1977 audiences first got to see The_Last_Wave movie. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076299
"Learning more about Aboriginal practices and the concept of Dreamtime as a parallel world of existence, Burton comes to believe the strange weather bodes of a coming apocalypse.
The film climaxes in a confrontation between the lawyer and the tribe's shaman in a subterranean sacred site. Overcoming the shaman, Burton escapes to the surface, but in the tunnel loses various tribal relics. After emerging from the sewer, he collapses on the beach and stares entranced at the horizon. The screen is filled by the shot of a towering ocean wave, though it remains unclear whether we are witnessing reality or sharing in Burton's final, apocalyptic premonition." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Wave#Plot
As Burton investigates, he learns the remains of an ancient civilisation still exist below the streets of Sydney, and that his dreaming is way of alerting him to an approaching apocalypse, the imminent destruction of the city by a giant wave.
Burton escapes from a subterranean sacred site, which seems to show South American Indians once made their way to Australia, and seeks to warn Sydney of its fate, but he's too late …
https://www.ozmovies.com.au/movie/last-wave
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9003681/Microsoft-develops-new-tell-employees-bored.html
Yes indeed, whether working in an office or from home, the system wants people to be even more productive, efficient and obedient. Don't want to be part of the rat-race in the office, you can just be another mouse in a tech-maze of control at home.
https://www.cnet.com/news/another-mysterious-monolith-has-been-discovered-in-romania
Perhaps it just started out as an obscure prank in Utah, but now this one in Romania could be part of a series of pranks.
https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2020/11/30/21726590/utah-monolith-romania-photos
Transhumanism shouldn't mean that all of surviving humanity transcends into something like the Borg_Collective. Digitally augmented or upgraded people shouldn't be a Loss_of_human_identity.
Where as Borg-Assimilation is about humanoids without having any human identity. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Borg#Physiology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg#Origin The quest to engineer human_enhancement doesn't have to result into a Borg type scenario. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Borg#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism#History
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Borg+and+Transhumanism+in+General
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come (1936) http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/AuthorSpecAlphaList.asp?BkNum=378
Of course protective equipment and clothing are important, but could things go over the top?
This just might be the epitome of personal-protective-equipment-(ppe)
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54916159 You might as well protect your self from something like The_Andromeda Strain. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028358/mediaviewer/rm2432427264
Why just wear a mask when you are the only one in a car? Now you can totally suit up wherever you go in any vehicle. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028358/mediaviewer/rm4155779328 Yes, the future global technocracy society is full of excitement and danger, so some might want to go into PPE overdrive. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028358/mediaviewer/rm1473261824 Fear has become the perfect vehicle to encourage humanity to become little bubbles of isolation. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028358/mediaviewer/rm2043687168 As a carbon-based life unit, the system will constantly encourage people about reducing_carbon_footprints. Eventually, the world will be obsessed with Carbon_footprint reduction. A global AI robotic technocracy might eventually decide to phase out humanity altogether. Why? Because humans-are-carbon-based-lifeforms.
"The Daleks were conceived by science-fiction writer Terry Nation and first appeared in the 1963 Doctor Who serial The Daleks, in the shells designed by Raymond Cusick.
Drawing inspiration from the Nazis, Nation portrayed the Daleks as violent, merciless and pitiless cyborg aliens, who demand total conformity to their will[1] and are bent on the conquest of the universe and the extermination of what they see as inferior races. Collectively they are the greatest enemies of Doctor Who's protagonist, the Time Lord known as "the Doctor." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek
Whether its something like the Daleks or the Borg, a Global A.I. System just might not eventually see a need for there to be that many people & other life forms on earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_general_intelligence
Total AI cellphones can be a great tool for people, as long as it doesn't lead to AI run Totalitarianism.
A human initiated global A.I. management system would eventually want to inject people with Nanoprobes for ID & general Biochip tracking purposes. Global A.I. would see the efficiency of tracking the human herd like cattle & other livestock. If global A.I. became obsessed with eliminating carbon, it might seek a Final_Solution for humanity. Perhaps some people and other life forms might still be permitted to live on a totally A.I. run planet, but they would likely be injected with Nanorobotics to facilitate Assimilation.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028358
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_general_intelligence
AL & AI https://thegradient.pub/an-introduction-to-artificial-life-for-people-who-like-ai
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Borg+and+Transhumanism+in+General
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Artificial+Life
https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/next-cancelled-by-fox-no-season-two-thriller-tv-series
Next had some potential if the pace of the story had picked up. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9315054
So its just become a 10 part miniseries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(2020_TV_series)#Episodes
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Next+TV+Series
https://deadline.com/2020/10/brave-new-world-canceled-peacock-one-season-1234603893
Well, that's it for the Brave_New_World_TV_series. It was a very good production overall. A.I. and the multilevel (digital) reality theme was cleverly depicted in this TV adaptation of the book.
Earlier in 2020, lots of people were delighted and fascinated with this TV adaptation. https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a34247909/brave-new-world-ending-explained-box
Unfortunately, this version of BNW is just limited to a 9 episode run.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Comparisons_with_George_Orwell's_Nineteen_Eighty-Four
BNW still serves as a warning about any totalitarian system. Do people just want to become like lab mice in someones maze, or continue to try to perpetuate a freer approach to thinking & living?
NEXT has the potential to be an interesting A.I. themed TV series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(2020_TV_series)#Episodes
https://variety.com/2020/tv/reviews/next-review-fox-john-slattery-1234785541
Unfortunately, this new TV series didn't catch on and was cancelled.
https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/next-cancelled-by-fox-no-season-two-thriller-tv-series
A.I. is rapidly becoming a digital force within high technology. A little like an A.I version of, The_Ghost_in_the_Machine.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/ai-robotics-potential-human-emotion A.I will eventually become ubiquitous all over the planet & beyond.
https://www.wired.com/story/alexa-own-questions-you
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9315054
https://www.wired.com/category/business/artificial-intelligence
https://www.fox.com/next , https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9315054
I already liked the premise of NEXT right from the first episode, but some people just might see it as the same old runaway A.I. theme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(2020_TV_series)
A.I. can be a fantastic tool for humanity.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/next-tv-review
But what if someday A.I. no longer sees humanity as a useful tool for it?
https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2 Bill Joy and Henry+Kissinger provide their own cautionary views.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2018/06/dr-henry-kissinger-ai-could-mean-end-of.html
https://www.wired.com/category/business/artificial-intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_machine#Gilbert_Ryle
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Next+TV+Series
Time Travel (TT) as a concept and as Sci-Fi entertainment has fascinated and enthralled so many people through the years. https://www.livescience.com/time-travel-origins.html , https://www.space.com/21675-time-travel.html , https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/according-to-current-phys , https://phys.org/news/2018-11-stephen-hawking-day.html
Of course there are so many interesting TT movies. https://filmschoolrejects.com/best-time-travel-movies-ever
The list just keeps on growing. https://www.imdb.com/list/ls068617191
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-lists/best-time-travel-movies-14354 ,
https://mashable.com/article/best-time-travel-movies
Primer is a very intelligent & speculative TT movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)#Plot , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUzy-xPf0MI ,
Predestination is based on the story, All_You_Zombies and can really take your mind for a ride. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_(film)#Plot , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC5f57U-k6c
http://www.openculture.com/2020/01/how-time-travel-works-in-fiction.html
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Time+Travel
Donnie_Darko is quite the metaphysical movie about a portal, consciousness, information and Time Travel...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzLn8sYeM9o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko#Plot , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM-o8Wm4s8Y ,
http://www.donniedarko.org.uk/explanation
"Donnie Darko was filmed in 28 days which, by coincidence, virtually matches the time that transpires in the film from October 2, 1988, to the weekend before Halloween on Monday, October 31, 1988." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko#Filming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko_(soundtrack)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko:_The_Director's_Cut , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrEpNBA6R3c
The_Bunny_Man Legend
The_Killing_Moon by, Echo_and_the_Bunnymen , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWz0JC7afNQ
"Echo And The Bunnymen perform "The Killing Moon" live at the Bat Bar in Austin, TX during the 2007 SXSW music festival. "The Killing Moon" is a single which was released on their 1984 album "Ocean Rain"..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fge2oXVdOvQ
https://www.looper.com/117919/donnie-darkos-ending-explained , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZrPYryNhWs
https://wakeupdonnie.fandom.com/wiki/Tangent_Universe
http://www.mjyoung.net/time/darko.html , http://www.mjyoung.net/time/theory.html
Time Travel in books, movies and TV series provide so many kinds of interesting scenarios.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Donnie+Darko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
The big problem for some people is that it's too unsettling to think that this world might be part of a cosmic construct of data and energy. Of course various religions imply that there is a creator of this cosmic operating system. Even the notion that the universe eventually developed its own form of cosmic consciousness, is too uncomfortable of a concept to seriously ponder. Yet, humans have existed and progressed up to a technological point where some have designed advanced VR simulations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis#In_popular_culture
Trinity:... I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.
Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to." https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/matrix/quotes/#:~:text=I%20was%20looking%20for%20an,question%2C%20just%20as%20I%20did. A lot of people go to a nightclub to have fun and forget about the real world for a while. Neo went to a club in search of The+Matrix... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXeF1rMkpQw
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-simulated-universe-with-riz-virk-lE8VvuxGQ1J ,
https://onezero.medium.com/we-need-to-find-out-if-we-are-living-in-a-simulation-1ae70919505b
That's the thing about being in an advanced VR construct. You wouldn't even know, unless someone from a higher perspective told you.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=VR
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=simulation
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simulation+Hypothesis
Of course a lot of people can hardly wait until there are full Immersion_(virtual_reality) games... Especially with a 1 or 2 hour setting in which the experiencer actually thinks that they are in that particular game world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3#Plot_summary 1963/1964
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity#Gameplay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Simulator , https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nec-build-japans-next-earth-simulator-supercomputer
There are some potential risks, so it still could be a while until such advanced VR systems are available to the public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_(virtual_reality)#Detrimental_effects
In the early 1990s, the band U2 helped to promote the ZOO+TV entertainment MATRIX.
Harsh_Realm (1999) looked like it could have been quite a wild simulation experience. https://www.wired.com/1999/05/x-files-creator-goes-virtual Sort of like a military version of SimCity. http://tactdb.blogspot.com/2014/04/harsh-realm-combat-virtual-reality-tv.html A VR war game immersion system sure wouldn't be set up for beginners. http://www.scififreaksite.com/harshrealm.html A full immersion VR effect could be achieved with something like a small version of a Cerebro type device. https://them0vieblog.com/2015/10/14/harsh-realm-review Although extreme caution would be advised, some people would still be pushing things to the limit. http://www.the13thfloor.tv/2016/08/31/the-elevator-ritual-a-terrifying-vr-horror-experience There are all sorts of potential problems and liabilities when things start to get too realistic. https://www.vrfocus.com/2017/10/do-you-dare-enter-the-13th-floor-in-fantas-new-vr-experience
The_Thirteenth_Floor and Source_Code movies depict a level of VR tech where ones consciousness can be transferred into another body. Of course this tech would be at a level that's far beyond any digital sandbox_game even, No_Man's_Sky. (NMS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man's_Sky#Future
Sandbox_game-History & Life_simulation_games
The technology to transfer consciousness into something like a very advanced version of The_Sims & other Avatars, is still a Sci-Fi concept. In The_Matrix world, ones consciousness is only linked to a VR character. However, it is implied that if a sudden disconnect with The_Matrix occurs, there would be dire consequences.
Of course back in the early days when people were first exposed to the SimCity game, the tech and the graphics were quite limited. Yet, something very interesting was started. All you needed was a personal_computer to experience this new digital or Virtual_World. However, any kind of full immersion or consciousness transfer was just Sci-Fi entertainment.
There was quite a big jump from the SimCity_(1989_video_game) to The_Matrix movie in 1999. The brilliant creators of The_Matrix_(franchise) wanted to depict a warning about, Out_of_Control A.I. run scenarios, where humans are mentally trapped in a simulated environment with various levels and versions. A small group of people try to break others out of the A.I. run simulation and only one human city remains in the "Real_World."
The_Thirteenth_Floor (1999) provided another fascinating version of a VR program with people being in something like a very advanced form of SimCity.
Of course something else interesting happened in the late 1990s. No_Maps_for_These_Territories#Background_and_premise
"It features appearances by Jack Womack, Bruce Sterling, Bono, and The Edge..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Maps_for_These_Territories
So during the 1980s and 90s, Bono and the Edge had obviously become very interested with the writings of William_Gibson_and_the_evolution_of_cyberpunk.
Thus, the unofficial U2 entertainment MATRIX era started. Achtung_Baby,_Zoo_TV,_and_Zooropa_(1990-1993)
Indeed by the early 1990s, Bono was doing his version of Neo in the SimCity MATRIX Thing. By 1992, the Even_Better_Than_the_Real_Thing-Music_video was ready.
In a way, the Zoo_TV_Tour was preparing people for the first Matrix movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8bnSQ8mR0 , https://www.u2.com/music/lyrics/42
There is a vast interconnected web of synchronicity with the concept of VR and advanced A.I. simulations in general. Its all part of The Simulation Hypothesis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer#Background
"Seven years after the events of Neuromancer, strange things begin to happen in the Matrix..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Zero#Plot_introduction (1986)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa_Overdrive#Legacy
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ZOO+TV
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=VR+technology
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Cyberpunk+2077
What is Synchronicity? What is The+MATRIX?
What is The Nature of Reality? (TNOR)
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simulation+Hypothesis
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+13th+Floor
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Harsh+Realm
https://www.ign.com/articles/paradox-free-time-travel-proven-possible-by-physics-student
This is another step closer towards proving that this world is part of an interactive cosmic recording and projection of time and space for consciousness to act within.
Primer and Predestination explore the Time Travel Paradox.
Whether it's a printed shape or image or a HD, 3D, VR variation, actors, musicians, writers and artists in general, can licence their likeness. Or, a corporation just might do that anyway, as a result of various agreements.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/07/02/best-keanu-reeves-cyberpunk-characters
For many fans, KR has always been more than just another VR actor.
https://www.ign.com/videos/cyberpunk-2077-becoming-samurai-bringing-johnny-silverhand-to-life ,
https://www.looper.com/205099/what-to-watch-next-if-you-love-the-matrix-trilogy
https://www.ign.com/games/cyberpunk-2077 ,
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Cyberpunk+2077
Dr. Jim_Al-Khalili has provided tremendous insight into the world and cosmos around us. https://jimal-khalili.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Al-Khalili#Early_life_and_education ,
https://www.jimal-khalili.com/academic
The World According to Physics - with Jim Al-Khalili https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKrjOD3ZeO0
https://hackernoon.com/will-human-writing-and-ai-writing-become-indistinguishable-ed393epp
A.I. can be a great tool, but human creativity and free expression should remain protected as much as possible.
