Future Ready, Past Perfect
As a prequel viewing to the Blade Runner 2049, I recently watched the original Blade Runner that was released in 1982. What seems amazing is the vision of the creators (mentioned below), who about 40 years ago, imagined the future for the year 2019. We are nearing 2018 now, already engaging and adapting to the then-envisioned ideas in our everyday lives. Surprisingly we are future ready (present now) with the past almost perfectly predicted. Voice operated elevators and computers, motion responsive habitats, iris-scanning devices, omnipresent digital advertising screens, images with high-end meta-data were ideas conceptualized then and made real on screen. In the movie, Artificial Intelligent bots have a high EQ, understand and instill desired emotional responses in humans, thereby outsmarting them. Ordinary folks running small businesses on streets are tech-adept and equipped with DNA readers. One can relate this to today’s scenario of about 300 million smartphone users in India w