Do androids dream of electric sequels?
MORE THAN anything, Blade Runner is a story about the end of empire, capitalism at its grim logical conclusion. That is the case for both the 1982 classic directed by Ridley Scott and the long-awaited sequel, Blade Runner 2049, starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling. The profit motive has destroyed the environment; the wealthy have fled to interplanetary colonies; and those who remain on Earth—humans and androids alike—live in dense squalor congested by pollution and garish advertisements. And yet, in the hands
