writing prompt conclusive scientific evidence has proven that we are currently living in a some sort of simulation.
Capturing and reconstructing a human conciousness was the first domino to fall. Once that happened, the time between doing it once and doing it billions (let alone trillions) of times was negligible. That's how things progress. A flash of insight, and the world leaps forward to new horizons it could never have imagined possible the day before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KcPNiworbo http://www.amazon.com/Virtually-Human-Promise-Digital-Immortality/dp/1250046637/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438655081&sr=1-1&keywords=virtual+human http://www.sonyclassics.com/moon/