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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 VLM on Wednesday January 02 2019, @10:48PM (1 child)
I should watch the movie again, but from memory the flying car aspect of the movie was soft sci fi, wasn't it? The fact that cars fly had no impact on the story that would have changed from 2-D cars.
I'm not saying the whole movie was soft sci fi, just saying the minor scenery choice of "WTF, its sci fi, lets put in a flying car" had no impact on the story and thus was typical soft sci fi, meaningless.
Its like trying to determine the moral and ethical boundaries of what it means the James Kirk had sex with green skinned chix instead of violet skinned chix because postmodernist marxism or WTF, it doesn't really mean anything at all even in the context of the movie...
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 03 2019, @01:40AM
ILM even threw in a Millennium Falcon cameo beside the flying cars...
It was a cinematic thing that showed off the city, giant buildings, weather change, flare stacks, etc. but other than that environmental expose' it wasn't a big plot point.
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