The future the film imagined was analog, cramped, and rain-lit — and it got the feeling of the work exactly right. AI assisted.A 1982 film and its 2017 sequel predicted the design problems we are still failing to solve, from synthetic memory to the interfaces we now argue about daily.Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner turned out to be a design document. Most people remember it for the rain, the neon, and whether Deckard is a replicant.The reality: the film kept getting the texture of artificial intelligence right while everyone around it argued about flying cars and Pan Am.It imagined machines that remember, machines that judge, and the people who have to tell them apart, all lifted from Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Watch it now, after two years building on large language models, and the uncanny part is not the world.It is the workflow.The tools in that...