World on a Wire (1973), the film credited with inspiring Tron, The Matrix, Westworld, and the whole...

World on a Wire (1973), the film credited with inspiring Tron, The Matrix, Westworld, and the whole idea that we’re living in a computer simulation. The film is taken from the novel “Simulacron-3” (1964), and the inpsiration for the novel is explained in the New Yorker article, “How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future” (July 27, 2020):

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/how-the-simulmatics-corporation-invented-the-future

How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future