In 1989, the legendary physicist John Archibald Wheeler had this idea that the universe wasn't just matter. In 2003, Nick Bostrom from Oxford University came up with a simulation hypothesis. Then there was a suggestion later that we could be a giant quantum computer. And then in 2016, I think maybe it's the first time that Musk said it: We're most likely a simulation.

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