{"id":197,"date":"2008-07-30T07:13:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T23:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=197"},"modified":"2008-07-30T07:14:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T23:14:43","slug":"science-fiction-as-an-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Science fiction as an influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent issue of Wired highlighted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/culture\/design\/magazine\/16-05\/st_bladerunner\" target=\"_blank\">yet another instance<\/a> where science fiction is an influencer &#8211; especially on those that have the money to fulfill their childhood dreams.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Sonny Astani, a 55-year-old real estate mogul is planning to bring 2019 Los Angeles to life in the form of two 14-story animated billboards modeled on Ridley Scott&#8217;s opening sequence. &#8220;I saw Blade Runner at least five times&#8221;, says Astani, whose empire encompasses thousands of Southern California apartment units. &#8220;The billboards always struck me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/images\/article\/magazine\/1605\/st_bladerunner2_f.jpg\" title=\"copyright Wired\" alt=\"copyright Wired\" height=\"320\" width=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent issue of Wired highlighted yet another instance where science fiction is an influencer &#8211; especially on those that have the money to fulfill their childhood dreams. Sonny Astani, a 55-year-old real estate mogul is planning to bring 2019 Los Angeles to life in the form of two 14-story animated billboards modeled on Ridley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-technology","category-at-the-fringes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}