Technologies in Minority Report
[2] In 1999, he invited fifteen experts convened by the Global Business Network, its chairman Peter Schwartz, and its co-founder Stewart Brand to a hotel in Santa Monica, California for a three-day "think tank".
[2][3] He wanted to consult with the group to create a plausible "future reality" for the year 2054 as opposed to a more traditional "science fiction" setting.
[3][5] Production Designer Alex McDowell kept what was nicknamed the "2054 bible", an 80-page guide created in preproduction which listed all the decided upon aspects of the future world: architectural, socio-economical, political, and technological.
[6] John Underkoffler, who designed most of Anderton's interface after Spielberg told him to make it like "conducting an orchestra," said "it would be hard to identify anything [in the movie] that had no grounding in reality.
I really did approach the project as if it were an R&D thing.”[7] McDowell teamed up with architect Greg Lynn to work on some of the technical aspects of the production design.
An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.News sources have noted the future technologies depicted in the film were prescient.
The Guardian published a piece titled "Why Minority Report was spot on" in June 2010,[14] and the following month Fast Company examined seven crime fighting technologies in the film similar to ones then currently appearing.
Media outlets described the systems manufactured by a Manhattan company named Global Rainmakers Incorporated (GRI) (2010) as similar to that in the movie.
[30] Countries such as the United Kingdom (2013)[31] France (2014), Switzerland (2015)[32] and Singapore (2016)[33] passed laws which allowed the testing of autonomous vehicles on public roads, with a view to further changes in legislation as the technologies improves.
"[10] Although the advertising-oriented website ClickZ called the film's interactive advertisements "a bit farfetched" in 2002,[10] billboards capable of facial recognition are being developed by the Japanese company NEC.
[40] According to Fast Company, "IBM's new Blue Crime Reduction Utilizing Statistical History (CRUSH) program feels almost directly inspired by Minority Report.
Police in Memphis have already had great success with the $11-billion 'precrime' predicting tool: Since installing Blue CRUSH, the city has seen a 31% drop in serious crime.
"[15] University of Chicago researchers published work on an approach to predicting crime up to a week in advance, but based on the geographic location rather than by the perpetuator, a privacy shortcoming of the CRUSH system.
In 2005, when the Washington Post asked the chief executive of MIT's spin-off handling their research when "the Minority Report newspaper" would be released, he predicted "around 2015.
"[43] Tech Watch's 2008 article "‘Minority Report’ e-newspaper on the way" noted that Hearst was "pushing large amounts of cash into" the technology.
[44] Spielberg decided to add the jetpacks worn by the policemen as a tribute to old science-fiction serials such as Commando Cody, even though the scientists considered them unrealistic.
