flyinglentris
Disabled and Retired Veteran
I have been watching one of my favorite scifi movies, "Blade Runner." I am amazed at how poorly the writer of "Blade Runner" predicted the future of our world. The "Blade Runner" movie takes place in 2019 and already has levitational vehicles, a collapsed climate and ecosystems in severely polluted environments, overrun with an unsustainable population. It has humanity, not just exploring space with manned missions, but colonizing space and mining it for resources. It has synthetic androids fleshed out in human form doing slave labor and military combat, - off world.
How wrong could the writer of "Blade Runner" have been? Humanity today, is no where near that and still has a workable planet, although, climatically changing. Our real nemesis today, turns out to be a pandemic and endemic virus, one that kills, but not everybody. We have economies in turmoil and problems with global distribution and provision of everything from food to high tech. We are a mess, but not in the way that "Blade Runner" predicted. "Blade Runner" should have been set in some later year, like 2183 or something.
As erroneous as its predictions are, I still love the movie.
How wrong could the writer of "Blade Runner" have been? Humanity today, is no where near that and still has a workable planet, although, climatically changing. Our real nemesis today, turns out to be a pandemic and endemic virus, one that kills, but not everybody. We have economies in turmoil and problems with global distribution and provision of everything from food to high tech. We are a mess, but not in the way that "Blade Runner" predicted. "Blade Runner" should have been set in some later year, like 2183 or something.
As erroneous as its predictions are, I still love the movie.