Things the movie got wrong about the future? - Minority Report (2002) Discussion

[–] esb90 10 years ago

Because it isn't 2052 yet we obviously can't answer what "they" got wrong. But the tech that caught my eye are BOTH now and/or becoming a reality: 1. Those clear media catridges, yes, 2. Interactive holographic displays (in their infancy, but emerging closer and closer to becoming 3-d projections) 3. I have no doubt, absolutely no doubt those commercials that target you out in the street or in the malls are closer to becoming a reality. Especially in the U.S. - advertising corporations run everything - Philip Dick practically envisioned the world we're living in already. And 4. Believe it or not; Brain wave actuated digital interfaces; http://www.researchgate.net/publication/260652043_A_Brain-Wave-Actuate d_Small_Robot_Car_Using_Ensemble_Empirical_Mode_Decomposition-Based_Ap proach <One example.

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[–] psdhart 10 years ago

re number 2:http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-devices/magic-leap-lands- google-funds/d/d-id/1316835

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[–] mpoconnor7 10 years ago

I think people will look back in 2052 and find that Minority Report got more things right about how the future would look than other sci-fi films depicted the future. Movies like 2001 got little if anything right about how the future would look, but I do believe Minority Report will prove to be a movie that got a number of things right. One thing it got right was the computer screens where you would use the swiping motion with your hand to activate things and move things around when they were investigating crime information in the office. That swipe technology is used today for smart phones.

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[–] smoko 10 years ago

@mpoconnor7 One thing it got right was the computer screens where you would use the swiping motion with your hand to activate things and move things around...
Yes indeed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6YTQJVzwlI

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[–] paulsdhart (277) 4 years ago

speaking of the screens, transparent screens are on the way
https://www.engadget.com/xiaomi-mi-tv-lux-transparent-oled-145546141.html

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[–] hellomike 10 years ago

"One thing it got right was...."

Erm... No

Indeed, swipe technology is used for smart phones, TODAY.
Wouldn't be surprised if over almost 40! years this technology, like typing on a keyboard, is ancient.

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[–] yurenchu 10 years ago

Typing on a keyboard has already existed for more than 40 years, and is still not obsolete. Furthermore, the swipe technology in the movie is different from the swipe technology on smart phones today; it's merely the functional aspect to it that is the same.

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[–] hellomike 10 years ago

Typing on a keyboard is indeed currently (in 2014) not obsolete. But the film depicts the year 2054. By that time typing and swiping may well be obsolete.

So we have to wait 40 more years before we actually can say if the filmmakers were right about the technology used by then, which I doubt.

Thats what I meant.

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[–] yurenchu 10 years ago

If keyboard typing hasn't become obsolete in more than 40 years (typing has existed and developed over a course of actually more than a hundred years), then why would you assume that a new technology like swiping will be obsolete in the next 40 years? Moreover, the swiping in the movie is a different, more developed form of swiping technology than the swiping we know from smart phones. So it seems that the movie, which was made when smart phone swiping wasn't yet around, has made a viable prediction of the direction that the current development of future technology (and our use of it) is taking. And we may even reach this future technology several years before 2054.

That's what I and mpoconnor7 (the user whose remark you dismissed) meant.

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[–] hellomike 10 years ago

Lets continue this thread in 40 years....

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[–] Interlepos (1807) 4 years ago

>> Lets continue this thread in 40 years....

34 now.

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[–] psdhart 9 years ago

Movies like 2001 got little if anything right about how the future would look

2001 did foresee the Ipad (when they watch the bbc)

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[–] smoko 10 years ago

@mitchellhundred I wonder if that wasn't a film-making decision by Spielberg. After all, this was made in 2002, and the iPod was already out by then.

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[–] atg_commish 10 years ago

There aren't pre-cogs who can see the future, and there never will be, since the future depends on our actions and decisions.

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[–] trekkie313 10 years ago

We have Google Glass and Bluetooth earpieces, similar stuff is shown in the movie. Also the computer interface used by Anderton is similar to the PlasyStationEye/Move.

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[–] Alex (1503) 5 years ago

We will have supercomputers to collect and analyze data on every single human being to evaluate psych profiles and "predict" future in a way.

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[–] ATG6 (3000) 4 years ago

Yeah, an AI that predicted crimes would make a lot more sense than a few Miss Cleo wannabes in a fish tank.

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[–] Naughty-God 9 years ago

If I recall, Minority Report is based in the Washington D.C. area and the general cast reflects a mostly White populace with a sprinkle of Black and Asian, hardly any Hispanics as well as Middle-Eastern/Persian/East Indian.

I would think that 50 years from now the D.C. area will be less Caucasian.

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[–] brux (14724) 4 years ago

But not the movies we watch!

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[–] travelinlightbill 9 years ago

One thing that came to my mind as being a little far-fetched was the transportation system. Not only is it extremely difficult to build cars that can operate on vertical roads, think about the infrastructural costs associated with building vertical roads and the cost of upkeep. We presently have trouble maintaining plain old ground-level roads, whether asphalt or concrete.

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[–] paulsdhart (277) 5 years ago

One thing that came to my mind as being a little far-fetched was the transportation system.
Also why have those automated cars in the city and still have normal drivable cars like the one in the factory (another one we see is the one Witwer arrives in with his team and Anderton gets hit by the door opening)
I guess it was an urban mode of transport

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[–] DracTarashV 9 years ago

I get the feeling this film is going to be right on the money about a lot things... that is, compare to many others Sci-Fi films set 20-30 years from now. Probably.

At any rate, this thread will make more sense 39 years from now, dontcha think? Well, the media cartridges already seems like an outdated idea, but who knows.

Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!

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[–] MuggySphere 9 years ago

Howcome we don't have the little cartridges to hold videos or movies. Would be better then a physical disk?

Why aren't blu rays or such on a solid state cartridge? How hard would that be?

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[–] mitchellhundred 9 years ago

Why would you want to use cartridges for video when digital media is so much efficient? Even Blu-Ray which is technically still state of the art, is being made way for streaming options. People are going away from physical mediums. Which is why I think only a little over a decade after the movie, that aspect of the film already looks out-dated.

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[–] MuggySphere 9 years ago

Because I had always imagined that in the future as in now we'd have solid state storage of movies and media. Even if only a niche thing.

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[–] mitchellhundred 9 years ago

Well most people can only picture things they are familiar with. In the early 2000's things like DVD's we're the new big thing at the time, so of course most people would just picture an improved version of that tech going forward.

However Spielberg apparently got the best futurists in the biz together to work on the film so they should have been able to see beyond what the average person could picture. And realize that digital storage was going to be the future of media tech in the near future.

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[–] BourbonKing (5777) 4 years ago

The problem with futurists is that many of them are personally bubbled-off from everyday reality.

When we see how social media has evolved since the Internet became widespread worldwide it really contrasts to the world portrayed in this movie which looks devoid of any narcissism and social media-driven awareness.

To me this movie aged badly as a futuristic story because of this just like Spielberg's "A.I" flick where the very few people he portrayed as a family looked more like a generic casting for an IKEA commercial more than a character study of humanity eons into the future.

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