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...It’s like someone watched Blade Runner and thought, “Yes that’s the kind of place people want to live”. If it was circular, it might make sense but this Sardine Tin City is my idea of hell....
...Nouvel converted a cinema into seven storeys of shopping and Blade Runner-type video screens to create a kind of multimedia shimmering blast of retail....
...Small aerial craft often feature in science fiction, including the 1960s US comedy cartoon The Jetsons and the 1982 film Blade Runner. Entrepreneurs kept trying to build them....
...It may sound like a low-budget Blade Runner rip-off, but over the past decade the scientific world has been gripped by a “replication crisis” — the findings of many seminal studies cannot be repeated, with...
...Much like Michael Phelps or the Kalenjin runners, 10 Foot’s body is perfectly suited to his sport. His long limbs let him reach over walls and stretch for faraway handholds....
...Flying cars have been the next big thing for decades, from the aerial buses in Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis to the battered police cruisers of Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi movie Blade Runner....
...Anyone who has ever watched The Jetsons or Blade Runner will be familiar with the concept. Flying cars are as much a part of our imaginary future as talking robots or interplanetary travel....
...Had the gifted director Hirokazu Koreeda — creator of bittersweet tales of Japanese domestic life — been invited to make a spiritual sequel to Blade Runner, he might have come up with Family Romance, LLC...
...The public will be able to bet £10 on one of the 40 runners with bookmakers promising all profits will go to the National Health Service....
...US ride-hailing company Uber and South Korea’s Hyundai Motor want to release terrestrial drivers with flying taxis, Blade Runner 2049 style....
...Tesla is looking for a production site for the Cybertruck, its Blade Runner-inspired answer to the Ford F-150, America’s best-selling vehicle for the past 38 years....
...Instead of attempting to create the new Blade Runner metropolis, we should instead invest in proven, effective and gravity-friendly existing transport....
...When Rick Deckard, the hero of the 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner, gazes down at a futuristic Los Angeles from a flying police car, a Pan Am sign shines on one of the towers....
...Blade Runner 2049 isn’t better than Blade Runner, pace some reviewers, since nothing in the science fiction domain could be. But it still astounds. It’s still gloriously, epically mad....
...Bangkok looks like a slightly dated vision of the future; Thailand’s economic boom was in the 1990s, and some foreigners say the city reminds them of the Blade Runner films....
...The chilliest dystopias of that time — A Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner — were urban in setting. Instead, cities recovered....
...But the overall tone is more Blade Runner than The Jetsons....
...In the drama, a sophisticated robot workforce (closer to the human-like replicants of 1982 sci-fi film Blade Runner than machines) moves from subservience to eventually destroy humanity....
...The last segment, “Course of Empire,” includes images of the burning World Trade Center and Edward Ruscha’s Blade Runner-like vision of “The Old Tool and Die Building”, emblazoned with Korean and Chinese...
...When a runner for the other team dangled off third base, the catcher fired the apple over his third basemen’s head....
...In an industry synonymous with Porsches and Ferraris, his preferred means of transport is a Toyota Prius....
...The Blade Runner-like ground transport from the airport into central Paris takes as long as a transatlantic flight....
...Then there were Louis Goldin’s quilted, ribbed geometric knits (think thermal underwear goes to the Star Trek boardroom); Joseph Altuzarra’s brass-buttoned black and white and beige 1940s Blade Runner suiting...
...Citigroup and Goldman Sachs have been appointed joint global coordinators and book runners for the IPO....
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