The Uncanny Escapism of ‘Flight Simulator 2020’

From a couple thousand feet up in Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator 2020, real-world mapping data from Bing Maps unfurls from the horizon. Giza’s pyramids are hourglass piles of sand. Hong Kong is a strip of urbanity snaking around the coast. A baseball field outside Yokohama, Japan forms a chalk pastel smudge. As I fly, my […]