Timeline for How would I know if I were a 1 mm tall robot?
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| Sep 17, 2016 at 9:27 | comment | added | Dan Henderson | The 13th Floor is another virtual world movie that predates The Matrix by several years. | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 17:10 | comment | added | JDługosz | Creating a fake reality in his own mind is not using computer-generated VR. Simularicon might be a reboot of the story under discussion, a decade later and a longer format able to explain the new ideas. | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 1:10 | comment | added | Felix Dombek | @JDługosz Philip K. Dick's Time Out Of Joint is from 1959; Simulacron-3 is from 1964 and was widely translated and made into a movie in 1974. | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 14:07 | comment | added | Jon Story | While this is true if the robots were proportionate to humans - I don't think we can discount the fact that the nanorobots would have their strength/speed scaled down to be relative to current human strength. | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 13:32 | comment | added | Jay | Or seriously, skip the robots and the virtual world, and just run their test advertisements with ordinary people in a real town. | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 16:48 | comment | added | JDługosz | I think the story is too old for that. I recall seeing a flight simulator in the 70's that used a real 3D model and flew a camera over it. Full virtual worlds didn't become a common trope 'till The Matrix but started to appear in SF in the 80's. The readers were utterly unaware of computers (in the modern sense) in 1955. | |
| Apr 25, 2016 at 9:33 | history | answered | IndigoFenix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |