Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. Baudr
Baudrillard concluded that in the postmodern media-laden condition, we experience something called "the death of the real": we live our lives in the realm of hyperreality...