Nick Bostrom told Vulture he didn't see "The Matrix" until after penning his still-discussed 2003 paper, "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?" ...

A Glitch In the Matrix likely won’t convince you that you’re living in a simulation.But this strange new documentary—which premiered at Sundance Film Festival last weekend and is now ...

Simulation theory falls by the wayside about midway through A Glitch in the Matrix, replaced by the horrors of the murder, which is only tangentially related to the hypothesis.

Simulation theory was popularised by the 1999 cult film 'The Matrix' (Image credit: Warner Bros / Village Roadshow Pictures / Kobal /Shutterstock) By The Week UK ...

What would it take, technologically speaking, to build a real version of the Matrix? Now that we're rapidly approaching the point at which such a thing will be possible, MIT computer scientist ...

Ascher traces the origins of simulation theory from Plato’s “Republic” to Philip K. Dick all the way up to Elon Musk’s Twitter feed. The visual components echo the questions the film is ...

Verdict. A Glitch In The Matrix is a solid sibling to Room 237 and The Nightmare. Once more, Ascher offers an empathetic space to conspiracy theorists and dreamers, creating a superb setting for ...

Whether you'd swallow the red pill or the blue pill seen in 1999's "The Matrix," the idea of humanity actually living inside an alien-controlled artificial simulation is unsettling at best.

The simulation hypothesis, which was famously probed in the 1999 film The Matrix, is the subject of a new book by Rizwan Virk, a computer scientist and video game developer who leads Play Labs at MIT.

When The Matrix was released in 1999, the idea that we might be living inside a hyper-realistic video game or computer simulation that was indistinguishable from physical reality, what we now call ...