The seminal Blade Runner stunned 1982 with the visually amazing concept of a huge, grimy neon tech-sprawl future LA of totally mixed ethnicity and robots that behave more like humans than humans do. Alien, in 1979, brought the world a vision of space travel in the future that for once was filthy and corrupt and run by giant corporations with no morals. Science fiction, ever the barometer of public fear, reflected this in books and film.
While some revelled in the abundance, others feared it.
The first and third world had never seemed wider. For the first time socioeconomic concepts like the multinational corporation and the global market became realities, and the division between Japan, and much of the first world was getting rich quick and advancing technologically in leaps and bounds but at the same time, other countries were still stuck in a past age, unable to keep up. In 1987, amid the boomtimes in the west, the rise of Japanese industrial and corporate power appeared to be potentially endless and the west seemed unable to match it. Given that this is Bubblegum Crisis\' 20th anniversary year, I\'m going to start with some historic background.
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