Once you can realistically simulate anything…that’s the endgame. The endgame is (the illusion of) omnipotence: know everything, do everything, indistinguishable from reality. That’s gonna come out of gaming. It’s not gonna come out of television, it’s not gonna come out of live theatre, it’s not gonna come out of music, gaming is trying to get there. Way out thousands of years in the future, games are the only form of anything and eventually destroy the entire human race. It’s at the end of the line, waiting. For all of us.
(一旦我们能够高度拟真地模拟一切,那就是终局来临的时刻。终局就是无所不能(的幻觉):什么都知道,什么都能做,一切与现实无异。这将来自游戏——不是电视,不是剧场,不是音乐,是游戏正在奔向那个终点。在遥远的未来,游戏将会是任何东西的唯一形态,并最终将人类毁灭。它会在终点线那里等着。等着我们大家。)
— John Siracusa, Accidental Tech Podcast 播客第七十集。