wearable mobile augmented About Concepts Artifacts Books Contributors Copyright© 2008 Isabel Pedersen

artifact: tron Film, 1982, directed by Steven Lisberger, written by Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird Tron is a Disney-produced sci-fi film that deals with a villainous computer program, “Master Control,” who tries to dominate and kill “digitized” humans subjects through its computer games. Wikipedia uses the concept “simulated reality” when referring to Tron and explains that “Simulated reality is the proposition that reality could be simulated—often computer simulated—to a degree indistinguishable from 'true' reality. It could contain conscious minds which may or may not know that they are living inside a simulation. In its strongest form, the "simulation hypothesis" claims we actually are living in such a simulation.” Other films associated with simulated reality include The Truman Show (1998), The Matrix Trilogy (1999, 2003, 2003), and Vanilla Sky (2001).