BLADE RUNNER

One of the rules about making the future in a movie is to base it off what is going on today. That sense of "the future is now" exists in all futuristic mvoies, just like BLADE RUNNER, where Sgt. Deckard is ordered to hunt down and kill all cyborgs in the city.

Cyborgs are seen the same way in the movie as a computer, although a great innovation it always has to follow up to humans. What is interesting about the cyborgs is their quest for perfection, a life longer than four years. But the last surviving cyborg, Roy, talks about how precious life really is, before he dies. What make the Director's Cut of BLADE RUNNER is that it gives the notion that Deckard himself is a cyborg. Of course the real dillemma is that in technical ways, we already are cyborgs.

In Chapter 6 of "Escape Velocity", Cyborging the Body Politic, it talks about how the human body has been changing and improving with cosmetic surgery and and mechanical organs. The human body is also being morphed into perfection. Usually in society the strive for perfection can people seem hollow as a doll, like Prisa in BLADE RUNNER where in the beginning she is a nice looking pleasure borg and in the end she puts on make-up and hide as one of the genetic toys in the room.

Humanity has always strive for perfection through innovation, from the first tools to the the first book to the first computer to the first blog space. The one thing I do believe we all need to ask ourselves how far do we go for perfection before humankind becomes obsolete?