*!!! SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE "THE 13TH FLOOR" AND SHORT STORY "THE TUNNEL
UNDER THE WORLD" BY FRED POHL !!!*
We have just watched "The Thirteenth Floor" :)
Wow!
...And I just discovered that the original book was written in *1964!*
Wow!!!
Thank you so much for recommending that, it was great.
(Of course when it ended I was thinking - "Just stay put. Don't ever go too
far from home!")
Makes "The Matrix" look a bit passe.
Surely that was the first description of a virtual reality as such? (As
opposed to a world that existed as some sort of psychic or supernatural
illusion, as in various stories by Lovecraft, Hodgson, H G Wells etc.)
("The Tunnel Under the World" by Frederick Pohl is earlier but in that the
people turn out to all be miniature robots.)
PS we watched "Inception" a little while ago - it was quite nicely
structured but somehow lacking humanity, I thought.
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