Future past imperfect: Blade Runner at thirty-seven

Here, at the edge of dystopia, time has finally caught up to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982). Critiques of Scott’s accuracy in near-future prophecy usually focus on the lack of hovercars and the fact that android sophistication isn’t much more advanced than the ice-cream scooping robot team in Federation Square. The other possibility, of course, is that we can’t see the future clearly because we are looking at it from the other side.