"It is too bad she can't live; But again, who does?"

Every time I watch a good movie, I decide to shorten the time intervals between watching movies. Although not all movies worth watching, no one doubts the art and technology of visualizing thoughts dramatically facilitates information transition among minds. Moreover, human memories even in the righty brains, shows more durability in holding graphics than any other serially-connected objects like sounds or words. And this memory plays a significant role in analyzing events, extracting rules and in short, gaining more insight into the subject matter at hand.

Among types of movies appealing to me -but have not watched much of- is science fiction ones. I chose “The Blade Runner” over the currently popular comedy of “JUNO” last night to watch and I couldn’t wait to write about it since I got out of the theatre.

Made in 1982, the film whose story is about genetically designed humanoid “replicants” features a vision into 40 years ahead-since-then when humans have cautiously utilized some more-intelligent –than-themselves creatures for space (called off-world in the film) exploration. Apart from some rather generic attractions such as the beautiful music by Vangelis, actions and plot, what amused me most was how the film makers have depicted LA and the industrial world in 2019. I don’t blame the poor 3D animation given the level of technology at the time but the oddly looking cars and especially airo-vehicles would barely fit the world in 2019 in the way they are shown to be driven. There could also be felt a slight emphasis on the unclearness and untidiness of cities due to the rapid growth of the population which I don’t see is happening now after 25 years. Apart from those points, I was impressed how we have genuinely followed the same direction in some industrial cases as depicted in the movie since it was made. A good example of it was the intelligent screen scanner which was equipped with a very accurate voice recognition algorithm to respond fast and non-erroneously to the commands of the user. To my best knowledge, we have enhanced a lot in voice recognition but still not as efficient as shown in the movie. However, the technology is very likely to turn to reality in less than a decade.

There were questions after questions blowing up to my mind as watching the movie which I yet don’t have a good answer: DEATH and aging? What causes aging? Origin of laugher in human? Why shouldn’t the replicants be laughing? Why having a short 4-year lifespan prevented them from developing emotions? Are we right in what we mostly perceive of a potential next generation of intelligent living thing after human? Have we ever thought about what we expect to get by manipulating human’s genes? They way the replicants were represented in the movie to me was weird, in the way that intelligence had more “physical” characteristic than mental and rationale. Even Roy Batty who was the most intelligent replicant did not show any extraordinary reasoning capability, more than uttering just some wisdom plus his strong physical body.

And as a last point, it is always good to think about some decades ahead and try to foresee what will be our next challenges. What do you really think life is going to look like in 2050? It is not an easy question given the numerous parallel way of investing on: Energy shortage? Climate and global warming? New material and polymers? More computer science and information technology and networking? MEMS and micromechanical systems? Space traveling and making our ways into another liveable planet? Genetics and developing higher IQs? Brain studies and making the current electromechanical systems as intelligent as having a brain? Biology, curing diseases and aging and increasing human’s lifespan? Or maybe politics will tragically seize everything all with a nuclear war? Which way is worth investing on?!!! To my opinion, it could be any of them, depending on how seriousely our "individuals" will work on their path. This is our determined hardworking individuls who make the path for others.

Feedback on my opinions and English is much appreciated! BTW, the title is the voiceover quote at the end of the movie when the inspiring vangelis music started.:)