How To Dress For The Future—No Jetpack Required

Ever since the turn of the millennium and the advent of technology that allows people to share their bad sense of humor with the entire connected world, there’s been all kinds of banal jokes about how our ostensibly futuristic world fails to live up to sci-fi predictions from the past. Where are our jetpacks, the jokes go. Where are the hoverboards that actually hover? Where are all the cool jumpsuits that several decades’ worth of sci-fi movies promised us? To be fair, we are living in classic sci-fi’s future, and things aren’t going quite as planned. 2017 is the year in which the The Running Man is set, and in the next couple years we’ll be living IRL during the times when Akira and Blade Runner take place, but it seems like we’re only getting the bad parts of the worlds they created. We’ve got Blade Runner‘s environmental collapse but no robotic Rutger Hauer; Akira‘s civil unrest but precious few psionic-powered biker gangs; The Running Man‘s—well actually with the way things are going it wouldn’t be a surprise if we actually have a full-blown murder-based game show on network television by the year’s end. But if you want to dress like someone straight out of a classic sci-fi movie, you’re pretty well covered. Read more at Esquire.