In something of an impromptu Philip K. Dick film festival, I had a chance to revisit the still-inspired 1982 Blade Runner and the still-disappointing 1990 Total Recall.

The first showed a billboard for Pan American Airlines, circa 2019; the other for a Sharper Image store, circa 2084. Of course, Pan Am (its lunar shuttle also figured prominently in 2001: A Space Odyssey) collapsed just 10 years after Blade Runner’s release, and Sharper Image closed all stores last year.

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