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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: 8ullfrog on June 14, 2019, 03:46:20 PM

Title: 2019 is the year Blade Runner was set in.
Post by: 8ullfrog on June 14, 2019, 03:46:20 PM
Still no flying cars. And the robots are still garbage.
Title: Re: 2019 is the year Blade Runner was set in.
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on June 14, 2019, 06:50:40 PM
At least we haven't totally screwed up the environment yet and there are not any cyborgs running around (not, at least, like the ones in the film).
Title: Re: 2019 is the year Blade Runner was set in.
Post by: 8ullfrog on June 15, 2019, 03:07:41 PM
I think they were called Synthetics rather than Cyborgs. Or Replicants.

I feel like the sequel was a bad idea.
Title: Re: 2019 is the year Blade Runner was set in.
Post by: smokester on November 29, 2020, 05:34:12 AM
Quote from: 8ullfrog on June 14, 2019, 03:46:20 PM
Still no flying cars....

They weren't far off.

https://siliconcanals.com/news/startups/pal-v-liberty-flying-car-european-streets/
Title: Re: 2019 is the year Blade Runner was set in.
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on November 29, 2020, 05:03:44 PM
Quote from: christ on November 29, 2020, 11:10:05 AM
How would you know?

Rutger Hauer is dead and Daryl Hannah isn't the svelte model she used to be.  But, I take your point.  On a related topic, this is pretty interesting:  an algorithm that constructs convincing human faces.  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/21/science/artificial-intelligence-fake-people-faces.html (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/21/science/artificial-intelligence-fake-people-faces.html)
Title: Re: 2019 is the year Blade Runner was set in.
Post by: Beatrix on December 05, 2020, 06:56:44 AM
Oh, poor Daryl, I'll miss her kill bill character style, maybe she'll surprise me and have done something I'll like since.

How nostalgic and weird that we're making it to dates that movies set as "the future"  I wonder what year is the oldest year that was described as futuristic in books and movies. How fake timelines correlate with real ones.  ::)

That is an awesome topic Six, you're always onto points of interest.  Anything you do is on point.  ;D  inspiring, I say!
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