Blade Runner Reality shows us that we've always lived in the future
Blade Runner Reality, as its name suggests, is an Instagram account that posts pictures of places that evoke Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterpiece. Or, “Instagram explains how much the real world has become like Blade Runner,” as one writeup puts it. “Is the knowledge that we are sort of living in Blade Runner comforting or distressing?” asks another. “Hardly a week goes by without some event or news item coming to light that would be right at home in a novel by William Gibson,” says a commenter.
If Instagram is explaining anything, though, it’s that we’ve always lived in Blade Runner.
Blade Runner might be set in retro-future LA, but a lot of the Blade Runner Reality pictures capture well-known, almost totally unrelated East Coast…
Source:: The Verge
