What Blade Runner got right about AI

The future the film imagined was analog, cramped, and rain-lit — and it got the feeling of the work exactly right. AI assisted. A 1982 film and its 2017 sequel predicted the design problems we are still failing to solve, from synthetic memory to the interfaces we now argue about daily. Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner turned out to be a design document. Most people remember it for the rain, the neon,…