Blade Runner, released in 1982, imagined a dark, neon-lit 2019 filled with flying cars, advanced humanoid robots, and off-world colonies. In reality, while we do have space stations orbiting Earth, that is about as far as we have come. Establishing colonies beyond our planet, even on Mars, which is relatively close, is still a huge challenge.
Even if we discovered an extrasolar planet with perfect conditions, the distances between stars are so immense that it would take tens of thousands of years to reach with current technology. And as for Earth in 2019? It thankfully looks a lot less like Blade Runner’s dystopian vision.
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