Jean BaudrillardIt is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.
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In this quote, there is a suggestion that the simulation of the real is taking place in the present day. The idea of simulating something is to make it an exact duplicate of the real thing in terms of how it appears and feels. However, what we are seeing is that we are simulating an ideal based on a model. What we see is one form and we expect another to come in its place.
Source: Simulacra And Simulation
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