"Blade Runner was the film that let an entire generation know that you could pick up the pieces of the 20th century and rebuild a future where dreams were still possible, even if everything around those dreams was rank. We didn't have a word for cyberpunk back then. We hadn't heard of William Gibson or Bruce Sterling. We didn't understand what was coming: the Internet, the end of the Cold War, the rise of feudal corporations, the blurring of borders. But we had an ominous sense of what was in store and Ridley Scott confirmed our hunch."

—Steven Kotler, "Tears in the Rain," Giant, March 2006