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It's 2019, the year Blade Runner takes place: I can has flying cars?
Welcome to 2019, the year in which Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi film masterpiece Blade Runner is set. And as predicted in this loose adaptation of a 1968 Philip K. Dick story, we have flying cars.
The reason you don't have a flying car was explained by author William Gibson, who famously observed, more or less, "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
If you're Sebastian Thrun, you've already flown in Kitty Hawk's Flyer, which is more flying boat than flying car. If you're not, chances are you will have to wait a bit longer to live your sci-fi noir transport fantasy.
Topics include flying cars, artificial pets, voice driven photo enhancement, the Voight-Kampff machine, ad-festooned airships, space colonies, artificial organs and replicants.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Wednesday January 02 2019, @05:07PM
Not really - eventually you run out of people who want the job badly enough to probably die for it. Might not happen until you run out of executives, you might even lose a few workers dedicated to climbing the corporate ladder, but eventually you'll be down to people who would rather work for a living than die. The investors can then decide whether they want to liquidate the company's assets, or restructure into something less hierarchical.