The surprising accuracy of Minority Report 10 years later
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#2Warning: Once you start reading, your productivity will go out the window. Awesome article.
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#3Interesting aside: The UI shown in Minority Report was actually developed by a team at MIT: http://goo.gl/tRLXO
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#4Minority Report was one of my favorite movies, precisely because it's liberal use of attainable sci-fi, stuff which was being researched and thought to be attainable en masse in 5-10 years (like e-ink, gesture based interfaces, etc...)
In many ways, I think a really well written sci-fi book, and especially a movie, can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. In which case, the movie would be making a proposition rather than a prediction :)
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#5A small detail I found interesting while watching Minority Report recently: among all the futuristic innovations displayed and mentioned in this article, when it began to rain, people still opened up traditional black umbrellas.
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#6Spielberg tried very hard to create a believable near future. He invited a collection of futurists to brainstorm ideas and implemented those ideas in the film.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/spielberg.html?pg=1...
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#7Hm, interesting. I only saw the movie about a month ago (and didn't even like it much) but it never occurred to me that the movie predicted anything correctly. I suppose because I took it out of context (in 2011, I took the things mentioned the article mostly for granted).
Actually, the future predicted by the movie is pretty scary, in particular:
- Automated cars that can be remotely controlled by the government
- Eye-based identification everywhere
I wouldn't wanna live in such a place :/
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#8Interesting aside: The UI shown in Minority Report was actually developed by a team at MIT: http://goo.gl/tRLXO
Casey Reas and Ben Fry, the two guys behind Processing.org
Re: The surprising accuracy of Minority Report 10 years later
#9A small detail I found interesting while watching Minority Report recently: among all the futuristic innovations displayed and mentioned in this article, when it began to rain, people still opened up traditional black umbrellas.
Some inventions can't be improved?
Re: The surprising accuracy of Minority Report 10 years later
#10A small detail I found interesting while watching Minority Report recently: among all the futuristic innovations displayed and mentioned in this article, when it began to rain, people still opened up traditional black umbrellas.
Some inventions can't be improved?