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L.A. 2013 - On April 3, 1988, the Los Angeles Times Magazine published a 25-year look ahead to 2013. This year, USC professor Jerry Lockenour is using the series of articles in a graduate engineering class he teaches.
http://documents.latimes.com/la-2013/
The Blade Runner version of LA is set in what is now the near future, and no sign yet of flying cars, replicants, or the environmental holocaust which consumed all wildlife.