*****MONOLITH-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!***** Back in 1984, the Cold War was in full swing. Soviet Russia (before the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union) was the binary enemy of the United States; they were the ‘commie pinkos’ and we were the ‘capitalist swine’ (even in those days, I never bought that propaganda). The US space shuttle…
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Retro-futures: reimagining the future from the past up…
Having recently been awed by the superior sequel “Blade Runner 2049” I was intrigued that the future depicted in the film’s 2049 was not a future based from our current 2017. BR2049 shows a 2049 projected from the 2019 we saw in the original “Blade Runner” of 1982. A future complete with ads from now defunct…
Visions of Futures Past…
We’re a few years shy of two decades into the 21st century, and I’m a graying, spectacled, middle-aged geek who’s now living in the “future”of his childhood. And so far it’s not quite the future I imagined in my youth. Parts of it still amaze me, but the bulk of it is very underwhelming and more…