Professor Vollmer ( Adrian Hoven), who is the technical director of the program, is apparently on the verge of an incredible secret discovery. In the present day, Cybernetics and Future Science's (Institut für Kybernetik und Zukunftsforschung) new supercomputer hosts a simulation program that includes an artificial world with more than 9,000 "identity units" who live as human beings, unaware that their world is just a simulation. A movie based on the same novel entitled The Thirteenth Floor starring Craig Bierko was released in 1999. Its focus is not on action, but on sophistic and philosophic aspects of the human mind, simulation, and the role of scientific research. An adaptation of the Fassbinder version was presented as the play World of Wires, directed by Jay Scheib, in 2012. It was based on the 1964 novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Shot in 16 mm, it was made for German television and originally aired in 1973 in ARD as a two-part miniseries. World on a Wire ( German: Welt am Draht) is a 1973 German science fiction television serial, starring Klaus Löwitsch and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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