i never thought of any of these franchises as particularly futuristic. Blade Runner is a sort of film noir detective story, star trek is more of a relocation in

i never thought of any of these franchises as particularly futuristic. Blade Runner is a sort of film noir detective story, star trek is more of a relocation in space and not time despite the superficial advance in tech, and BttF is, while literally moving through time, not really envisioning a future. Gibson and Stephenson were two of the people who actually tried to talk about the future, and they got a lot of things right. We didn't get the Jetsons type retrofuturism with flying cars and 60s suburbs on mars, but the internet alone has made the world a lot stranger than people imagine. Economics, GDP measurements and so on are very good at capturing the world of commodity production, and indeed not much has changed, but when you look at how information moves around today a great deal has changed, and gdp statistics don't capture it. the entire idea that 'the future' is measured in terms of economic output, where people are flying on huge rockets or something like that is itself a symptom of being stuck in the industrial age