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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 02 2019, @03:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-gyro-pistols dept.

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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.


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday January 02 2019, @08:16PM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday January 02 2019, @08:16PM (#781154) Journal

    I dunno, we haven't missed blade runner by all that much. We have a world ruled by mega-corporations. We have huge cities squirming with endless poor. We have flying cars, in part, except few people own them yet. We have cloning, though it isn't widespread yet. We have synthetic biology, though only in the lab as yet. We have self-driving cars and the beginnings of AI. And most importantly we have sex bots. Warm, cuddly, cooing sex bots.

    Or so i read.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 02 2019, @09:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 02 2019, @09:29PM (#781198)

    Just wait till his wife reads that one. No matter how you look at it he's going to the dog house!