Posted on 11/01/2019 7:46:20 AM PDT by Borges
It's November 2019 and Los Angeles is in a state of urban decay. The population has dwindled, and humans face a new threat from manufactured biological robots gone rogue...
Back in 1982, this is how Blade Runner director Ridley Scott imagined the world would be.
Thirty-seven years after the film was released, how accurate were its predictions about how technology would play a bigger role in our lives?
Here are some of the things the film got right, and others where it was way off the mark.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Blade Runner picked the wrong city on the West Coast to be taken over by Asia. It was Vancouver, not Los Angeles.
My grandaughter showed me a photo she took on her iPhone and it made my heart skip a beat. It actually had about a 16th of a second “video beginning”. i.e. it acted EXACTLY like the photo of the little girl with the woman in the movie “blade runner”. remember, when the shadows of the leaves on the two girls moved slightly before freezing into a still photograph.
I’m guessing the movie was actually the inspiration for this feature in iPhone cameras.
Second Blade Runner post of the day. We’re on a roll.
It’s been known as Hongcouver for decades, at least among many Canadians.
Still no flying cars.
Small slip. $1.25 in Blade Runner's time is $1.25 in today's money, because the movie is set now.
And we’ll never find out if androids or gynoids dream of electric sheep.
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Well, it did seems pretty dark in LA so they got the PG&E thing right.
And no Chinese restaurants that come to you on a dirigible.
The Japanese are making progress on sex robots, and the Arabs are dreaming of electric sheep.
LA is under the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, not PG&E. PG&E is shutting it off in the Napa and Sonoma valley areas (north of San Franshitsco), among others.
https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/maps/serviceareas/electric_service_areas.html
Where’s my Sean Young robot?
Rutger Hauer died in 2019, just like his charactor Roy Batty.
That was 5th Element. The noodle restaurant in Blade Runner was just on the street.
What river separates India from China?
The Fraser.
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