flying cars in 2049 - Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Discussion

[–] Renovatio (2990) 7 years ago

The original was set in 2019 and had flying cars...

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[–] tom8 (3119) 7 years ago

right, but i think having flying cars in 2019 was more believable for people in 1982, then flying cars is believable in 2049 for people in 2017... am i making sense, do anyone know what i mean ?

like a guy in 1982 sees a flying car in a movie about 2019, he goes "cool, that might be reality".... where as a guy in 2017 sees a movie about flying cars in 2049, he goes, that's unrealistic bullshit !

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[–] Renovatio (2990) 7 years ago

I know what you mean 👍

I think another reason is that we just dreamed bigger back then 😎

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[–] MagneticMonopole (286) 7 years ago

Science fiction throughout the years, whether in written or visual form, has always grotesquely exaggerated the scientific and technological achievements of the future. You'd think that even science fiction writers known for their scientific accuracy and attention to detail would be good at making such predictions, but they suck, too.

Case in point, in the early 1950's Robert Heinlein published a list of about two dozen predictions he was confident would come to pass by the year 2000. He only got two right: cell phones, and that humanity would NOT be destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. A couple of the others were semi-accurate, but most were just crazily off.

That's okay, though. Good science fiction isn't really about predicting the future.

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[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 7 years ago

Just view it as an alternative universe. With each cut of the original Blade Runner I hoped they'd remove 2019 from the opening credits and the sequel only made it worse by including a year in the title!

The novel Blade Runner is based on was set in 1992 btw! 😃

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[–] Volley (3433) 7 years ago

See the sad thing about 2049 is that we most certainly will not have flying cars as mainstream in 2049. It just very well might take to 2149 and beyond, pending no major world events that take us to the dark ages such as EMP's, Carrington Events, and of course Nuclear War.

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[–] ksi (49) 7 years ago

It is a fictional alternate universe, where nuclear wars decimated the planet, if you go to 1850 and say that in about 50 years you will have flying vehicles and also the first commercial flight a little later, most people would laugh in your face and call you crazy.

Now move to 1950 and say that in about 50 years you will have a complete world network of devices some so small that fit in your hand and so powerful as to store entire libraries and have access to it instantly, most of the people in the whole world would laugh again at you and call you crazy, just think how different the world would be if the USA would have turned full communist (hardcore not just a few ideas) in the 20th century, the internet would not exist at all or not even close to what we know now.

We do have the means to have flying cars similar to the ones in this movie by the time proposed on the movie, the problem is that there has not been enough motivation to make the jump to a full investment and implementation. Maybe in the movie universe the lack of some laws (you know, having complete wastelands all over the world kind of change your priorities on life) allowed to move faster with the development of that technology, just like how they allow "human" bodies (the replicants) harvesting and manipulation, maybe nobody tough twice about the implication of flying cars or their autopilots were so advanced by that time.

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