Blade Runner is officially set in the past!

mrcheez wrote: »

Didn't see this mentioned anywhere, but this is (un)officially Blade Runner month




Somewhere a Blade Runner is noshing into a bowl of noodles about to get a tap on the shoulder...

We may not have flying cars or space colonisation, but at least world is in a better shape than the Blade Runner world.

We are Bladerunner ...

Are you serious? That cant be.. is that pic even from Blade Runner?

"Enhance 2 24 to 1 76"

"Enhance"

"Enhance!"

"Enhance!!!"

Still waiting for this voice command picture enhancing software tbh, never mind replicants :pac::p

The adverts know who you are in the film

pixelburp wrote: »

You think that's bad, in 1999 we were supposed to have been in the middle of the Eugenics Wars, one of the catastrophes that prefaced the forming of Star Trek's Federation

I never understood SciFi authors doing that; takes bold confidence to set your outlandish story within your, or your children's, lifetime!

I remember each installment in the Terminator franchise except T2 having to shift judgement day forward a few years every time as the previous date was in the new film's past every time.

turnfan wrote: »

I thought replicants are like clones, essentially identical to humans on a biological level?

In truth, i had always assumed there was some parts of a replicant that were mechanical, and AI enhanced, which made them 'superhuman'; but in my younger days I never had the information superhighway, and now that I have, I never bothered to check before I posted. So I checked it out; it initially looks like a replicant was bio-engineered, but then it becomes ambiguous:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant

I guess I had the title of the book it was based on in my head from the start "Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep", and just assumed there was some android component to it.
If the fictionality of it varies, but it is accepted as fully bio-engineered, then -instead of the V-K test - bearing in mind they are engineered not to have emotion, why not have a simple blood test to test for the absent biochemicals, or failing that, to test for the DNA stamp? I mean this is really important!:D The replicants are among us now! And all we have is the psychopath test. Science is failing us people.

pixelburp wrote: »

What I will say in defence of the future visions of the 50s and 60s: that if you looked at the breakneck technological acceleration of NASA and Roscosmos during that period, I could understand how SciFi authors might get sucked into the belief that we were only a decade or so from interstellar travel.

Well, you could go back a little further to the war and look at the great leaps in technology that was made between 1940 and 1945 too. But certainly, it can be somewhat forgivable if writers, screen & book, thought that that momentum would continue.

But, even by the early 70's it was becoming apparent that that wasn't really the case.

It's hilarious to look at something like 'Space 1999' now and see just how wrong their projections were in many cases. Not all, mind you. But, yeh, made in 1978 and contemplating such incredible changes in just 20 years was hopeful foresight, to say the least.

pixelburp wrote: »

Sputnik to the Apollo Landing was a mere 12 years,

Sure, but it was the ground work done in rocketry during in the war years that gave those NASA programs its base to work from, so the means of propulsion was already laid down and vehicular design and space survival were really the factors that concentrated the minds of NASA. "Sputnik to Apollo may be just 12 years, but astronaut work was ongoing since the end of the war.

But, yeh, even at that, 1949 (Bell X-1) to 1969 (man on the moon) is just 20 years I suppose.

Which reminds me, I really have to watch 'The Right Stuff' again soon.

pixelburp wrote: »

I get that, but I'm meaning from the perspective of the public & pop culture, where to read newspapers, it would seem like technology was rushing at an unstoppable pace in a mere decade. Not sure if the exploits of Chuck Yaegar n' all would have been classified or not, but certainly the big moments like Sputnik were worldwide news. The public domain suggested infinite horizons and I daresay writers jumped on that - however naively.

The Bell X-1 flight was classified, like all the X planes, but by the early 50's rockets and space travel were very much on the consciences of the public. Well, at least the American public and the Cold War space race had no end of responsibility for keeping front and centre.

Although it's very difficult to gauge just how prevalent names were during a specific period. I can't imagine that Chuck Yeager's name was a household one, though, in the same way that Neil Armstrong became, despite him formerly being trumpeted as an "ace in a day" during the war.

Certainly, things like Sputnik charged the minds of everyone. My old man used to tell me about listening the that being reported on the wireless.

Manach wrote: »

I miss the oportunity to head to the off-world colonies, a golden land of opportunity and adventure.

How times does that dialogue get used in the movie?

Sometimes it drives me mental but the words in my head now make want to watch it right now. Holding out until I get my 4K TV at Christmas though.