stylish chicken-egg dilemma

Rating: 10/10 (16 July 2002)

not only that "bladerunner" is a stunning masterpiece with lasting influence on the genre, it also carries a technological prognosis of amazing accuracy. in 1982, the extensive availability and quick spreading of PC's, voice recognition or proprietary picture processing had not even reached the minds of pathologically optimistic scientists, but in "bladerunner" Deckard quite nonchalantly instructs a user-friendly, disc-based picture printer to perform a blowup. no technological catwalk or impressive gestures, just ordinary humdrum in stylish lighting. nowadays, comparable machines even look a bit like the one Scott featured 20 years ago. if you take the ultrafast development circles of the chip biz into account, then we all should express our sincere respect to Scott's farsightedness. time confirmed more than once, that he's a clairvoyant in a movie director's disguise.
so my question is: does Scott possesses the ability to transcendent contemporary technology into provident, device-specific design issues or do the creatives in the big electronics companies watch sci-fi movies to get inspired for their equipment's design? odds are high that they do, but then again...
no matter what, "bladerunner" gets 10/10.