The defination is most known for its discussion of images, signs, and how they relate to the present day. Baudrillard claims that the modern day wrold and society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that we live in a simulation of reality rather than reality itself.
Baudrillard believes that the signs of culture and media create a perceived reality; leading to society to become so reliant on simulacra that it has lost contact with the real world on which the simulacra are based.
Television, film, print and the Internet, are said to be responsible for blurring the line between goods that are needed and goods for which a need is created by commercial images.
The Matrix makes many connections to Simulacra and Simulation. Simulacra and Simulation is the book in which Neo hides his illicit software. Morpheus also refers to the real world outside of the Matrix as the "desert of the real".
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