The law requires that citizens stop what they are doing and respond. CRMs are constantly interrupting everyone to ask inane questions on every conceivable subject. The future world in Simulacron-3 is overrun with “Certified Reaction Monitors,” a fancy name for pollsters. It takes place in 2034, then 70 years in the future. In any event, what was Simulacron-3 about? Preston Greene, the author of that NYT column, was influenced by Simulacron-3.
Coincidence? It would not surprise me if Prof. See Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out. The New York Times column that was the subject of my previous post was published on August 10, 2019. See the listing for Simulacron-3 on Amazon.
Simulacron-3 has long been out of print, but it was reprinted on August 9, 2019. (Perhaps because of the movie The Matrix which came out in 1999 and may have been influenced by Simulacron-3.) The copy that I read when growing up on the farm in the 1960s was long gone, and the book was out of print, but I found and purchased a used copy. Some years ago I wanted to re-read this book. I’ll discuss the common themes below, but first I want to make an observation about the publishing history of Simulacron-3. Several online NYT commenters mentioned Simulacron-3. In fact I’m not the only person to notice this. Sure enough, the book and the New York Times column that was the subject of my previous post share similar themes. My worn copy – see image at left – is a Bantam Books paperback edition, original price 40 cents, published in July 1964.
So, subsequent to writing that post, I pulled out my copy of the book and re-read it. My previous post ( Are we living in a simulation?) reminded me of a book that I read as a youth: the science fiction novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F.
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