Though they are an improvement on a computer screen, e-book readers remain crude simulacra of books.

ECONOMIST: Book publishing in America

Legitimate history of the gold standard, and its real simulacra, will inevitably sing of broad prosperity, growth, and opportunity.

FORBES: Trashing The Gold Standard is Now The Stuff Of Amateurs

If this fantastic simulacra isn?t enough for you, Robot Gunslinger also has ultrasonic hearing and magnified, infrared vision ? demonstrated by the first ever use of computer generated imagery in a film ?

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To isolate the factors that really affect how people feel about simulacra, the two researchers rounded up several hundred undergraduates and showed them ten video clips, five of robots and five of animations.

ECONOMIST: Animation and robotics