"Blade Runner" by Ridley Scott, released almost forty years ago, was set in Los Angeles at a time that seemed very distant at the time: November 2019.
The film represented a post-apocalyptic urban landscape, an overpopulated megalopolis, crossed by flying cars and dominated by colossal billboards, under a constant rain.
Ridley Scott's movie was released in 1982 and was inspired by the science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick written 15 years earlier, entitled "The hunter of androids" (whose original title is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?).
Starting from this anniversary, we invited two experts to talk about the future: thirty-seven years after Ridley Scott's movie, how have our cities changed? And what will cities be like in 2060?
Dick, in the late 1960s, imagined a 2019 very different from what we experience today, but perhaps not really in everything?
Speakers included: Andrea Colaiacomo, Principal Consultant (Transport Modeling) at Veitch Lister Consulting, specialized in transport engineering, and Pierluigi Mancarella, professor of electrical energy systems at the University of Melbourne, who specialises in "smart cities".
