Baudrillard saw it all in the late 1970s, in his book <i>On Seduction</i> that extrapolates the importance of video games from <i>Pong</i> and his later <i>Simulacra and Simulation</i> which outlines 13 parables for the information age, each of which could be the basis for an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. (e.g, <i>Terminator</i> as a study of the post human, <i>Total Recall</i> for the reality bending power of technology, <i>Last Action Hero</i> is in the liminal space between reality and fantasy)