Collaborate Disseminate
Now that November of 2019 has passed, it’s a shame that some of the predictions made in Blade Runner for this future haven’t yet come true. Oh sure, 109 million people living in Los Angeles would be fun and all, but until we get our flying cars, we’ll just have …read more
Blade Runner showed us a dystopian megatropolis vision of Los Angeles in the far-off future. What was a distant dream for the 1982 theater-goes (2019) is now our everyday. We know Los Angeles is not perpetually overcast, flying cars are not cruising those skies, and replicants are not hiding among …read more
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Developer Nicole He made ENHANCE.COMPUTER to riff off an old, ridiculous movie and TV cliché. Continue reading This Game Lets You Yell ‘Enhance!’ at Your Screen Like a Cheesy Crime Drama Trope
The “Blade Runner” universe is visually Asian, so where are the Asian people? Continue reading Cyberpunk Cities Fetishize Asian Culture But Have No Asians
Masterful cyberpunk or boring slog? A debate. Continue reading Is ‘Blade Runner: 2049’ GOOD or BAD?
A spoiler-filled review. Continue reading ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Is More Human Than ‘Blade Runner’
On Thursday, Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading Nobel Winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ Predicted the Gene Editing Debate
The new generation of replicants live long, painful, subservient lives. Continue reading Here’s What You Need to Watch Before Seeing ‘Blade Runner 2049’
What does the future actually look like? Chances are what you see in your mind when presented with that question is heavily influence by Syd Mead. He is an industrial designer, but his body of work — which includes some of the most iconic Sci-Fi movies ever filmed — built a much more interesting job title for him: Visual Futurist.
Meet Syd Mead as he presents a keynote talk at the 2017 Hackaday Superconference this November 11 and 12 in Pasadena, California.
Philip K. Dick wondered Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but when it came time to build those …read more
Continue reading Visual Futurist Syd Mead will Keynote at Hackaday Superconference
The AI that made ‘Blade Runner: Auto-encoded’ transposed the aesthetic of the movie onto other sci-fi classics. Continue reading The Neural Net That Recreated ‘Blade Runner’ Has the Movie Stuck in Its Memory