Technology has brought us to a place in history that has allowed us to produce simulations (avatars, 2nd lives, Hyperreality, immersive reality) - this is postmodernism, the collapse of the real and artificial. Baudrillard suggested we could no longer tell the difference - we are lost in simulation. This opens us up to the concept through familiarity with virtual worlds/ virtual identities that reality itself is a Simulation. Ironically - by moving to Digimodernism (Post Post-modernism) we find ourselves in Plato's cave.
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