1982

               I titled this blog 1982 instead of something more specific to the movie because I think there were a lot of ideas and speculations within the plot and details of the movie that were more of a generational ideology from the culture of the decade.  

            Personal feelings about the movie quality aside there were many forward and futuristic thoughts that went into it's development. Lots were inaccurate, some are already established now and some could be developed in the near future.

One large inaccuracy is the development and society description of LA. In the movie it's heavily Asian influenced, with culture and language alike. It is also dirty, dark, industrial and crime ridden, which is very different from the sunny artistic California hub we know today. Buildings are triple the height and the city itself if quadruple the size of LA today. Lots of the city seems like slums, and there is one corporate building to rule them all. In the 80's pollution was becoming a well known and wide spread problem, and I think that emphasis is in the movie as well, with the large nuclear towers in the beginning.

                                                         
Another mistake was the technology they proposed would be in 2019. Some was correct, like the eye "exam" test they had for the robots, which could be described similarly to retinal exams of today. Video chat is also correct, but it's even better now than they could even do with movie magic in the 80's. They also had videos and adds on the buildings, which is all over the place today from time square to art installations and concerts.

There are also major wrong hits with technology like hover cars and fully working humanoid androids, with feelings and judgement that could be mistaken for a human. We also aren't fighting off world and needing robots to fight for us for the expansion of earth. We also don't need a ship to take excess humans to these colonies.
        So obviously the developers and directors of this movie were going for a dystopian society focusing on overpopulation, pollution, and the abuse of technology gone awry. 
        The movie as a whole was not my favorite, the story itself and characters could have been developed better, but it was an interesting watch to see the guessing of forward thinkers from 34 years ago.