How Syd Mead, designer of 'Blade Runner,' sees the future — in film and real life
Syd's take is that soldiers might one day be protected with in lightweight, self-powered battle suits constructed from electroactive polymer that contract under a charge. Prosthetic body shells built from similar materials could help the elderly.
Science fiction is where the future happens first, and that puts futurist Syd Mead at least two steps ahead of the rest of us. The 78-year-old conceptual artist may be best known for designing the flying-cop-car-patrolled Los Angeles streetscapes in "Blade Runner," but he also dreamed up the original light cycles in "Tron," the Marine-transport starship in "Aliens" and visions of a class-stratified, off-Earth world for Neill Blomkamp’s highly anticipated March 2013 feature "Elysium." Here, Mead makes predictions for what we might one day see in film, in real life, or both.
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