Bostrom's paper inspiration for Jay Scheib play
Professor Bostrom's paper 'Are you Living in a Computer Simulation?' inspires play which recently ran in New York
World of Wires adapted and directed by Jay Scheib after the film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Screenplay by Rainer Werner Fassbinder based on the novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye.
Reeling from the reality of people living their lives inside of machines, World of Wires is Jay Scheib’s new adaptation of Welt am Draht, filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 science-fiction television series. The play is an all-bets-are-off homage to the startling possibility that you too might be ones and zeroes in someone else's immaculately programmed world. World of Wires is also inspired by the works of Oxford University Professor Nick Bostrom, including his compelling paper, "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?"
World of Wires will run at The Kitchen, New York, 6-21 January, 2012
Visit Nick Bostrom's website to read the original paper and other resources.