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It’s Nov. 20, 2019 and flying cars have yet to become a thing. I can’t believe Blade Runner would mislead us like that.

The beloved 1982 film — based on the Phillip K. Dick sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford as a “blade runner” — was indeed set in Los Angeles in November of 2019.

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That date has sent Twitter ablaze for weeks leading up to Wednesday, with most social media users commiserating over the fact that we haven’t become quite as technologically advanced as the film promised.