The Death of Circuits.

I had never seen Blade Runner before. (Shame on me, I know.) However, I really enjoyed it. It had a lot of strong themes that progressed throughout the movie. It made me want to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. By Philip K. Dick.

I found the idea of Mega-Manufacturers like the Tyrell Corporation intriguing. This is hauntingly similar to the real world. Monsanto anybody? (Except Monsanto is a little bit more evil, but that is another story altogether. Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, ect. Those are the current world’s “Game of Thrones.” Also, this movie was released in 1982 and portrayed a grim, dystopian future set in the year 2019. If the Mayans were wrong, we will be hitting this year fairly soon and we can all take a long sigh of relief that it's not too much like Blade Runner.

            Another interesting aspect of this movie is the “grey area.” It makes you question who the good guys are. Are the androids Deckard hunts the bad guys? They’re escaping their work. Thus, escaping slavery. I feel that this story is a great example of “victims of circumstance.”  Tyrell, Roy, Zhora, even Rachel and Deckard all have these sad endings or grim futures. 

            Spinners are cool. We have always had a fascination with flying cars and it’s actually a technology that isn't far off. Granted it uses magnets and magnets under the street to create the “flying” affect but it is still doable by 2019.  I always find it fascinating when things once thought of as the pinnacle of sci-fi are now just out of reach; or even stranger yet, old technologies now.  The original Star Trek had devices very similar to that of a cell phone as well as many other small gadgets that you see on the market today.

            Today’s SciFi is just as weird as ever, we have a lot of interesting contemporaries, Margaret Atwood, China Meiville and others. I wonder if their worlds, their creations, will come to fruition as well.