Conclusion

A Radical Enterprise

Most readers will be familiar with the film The Truman Show about the life of Truman Burbank, a man who has grown up within a vast simulated reality. Quite unbeknownst to him, everyone who surrounds him, including his wife, is an actor, and hidden cameras broadcast his every moment to the rest of the world. He has never left the island community in which he was raised, and although the creators of his simulated world have attempted to provide him with a good life, he is nonetheless beset with feelings of unease and disaffection. In time, he decides to leave his hometown, and after a failed escape attempt, he manages to evade the authorities and sail out onto open water. To his surprise, his small boat runs into ...

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