Should a video game simulate the whole world?

We’re rapidly erasing the boundary between the make-believe worlds of video games and the real world of sensors and visualisation. Microsoft’s Flight Simulator 2020 allows you to fly over the whole world - with all the cities and countryside presented in detail - just as they are in reality. Is it now possible to “fly" through everything we know about the world - But there's even more being simulated for us to explore, from ground level, all the way up to the heavens.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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