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