The future is now for California Japanese

It has been 40 years since the movie Blade Runner and the cyberpunk movement in literature depicted a future world in which Asian, particularly Japanese, culture blended with a future high-tech California. It was a chaotic, visually fascinating place where billboards writhed and morphed, strange electronic music pulsated, and food was elegantly presented but almost unrecognizable.That movie and those books showed a grim, dystopian future, but with a beguiling background. Like much good scien