{"id":3723,"date":"2008-11-12T03:35:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T02:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2008-11-17T00:24:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T23:24:36","slug":"wired-on-the-technology-predicted-by-minority-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/11\/12\/wired-on-the-technology-predicted-by-minority-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Wired on the technology predicted by Minority Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wired magazine have an interesting feature on six real gadgets<\/a> that Minority Report<\/a><\/strong> predicted correctly.<\/p>\n

The 2002 sci-fi thriller stars Tom Cruise<\/a> as a Washington cop in a special unit\u00a0called ‘Precrime’ that apprehends criminals based on\u00a0foreknowledge<\/a>\u00a0provided by three psychics termed ‘precogs<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

Set in 2054, it features all kinds of interesting technology, partly because in pre-production director Steven Spielberg<\/a> convened a think-tank to brainstom\u00a0details of what a future reality might look like.<\/p>\n

They included:\u00a0Long Now Foundation<\/a> president\u00a0Stewart Brand<\/a>, author\u00a0Douglas Coupland<\/a>, Cybergold founder Nat Goldhaber, biomedical researcher Shaun Jones and virtual reality expert\u00a0Jaron Lanier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Wired article points out that the film suggested the following developments:<\/p>\n

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  1. Gesture-based Computer Interfaces<\/li>\n
  2. Flexible Displays<\/li>\n
  3. 3-D Holograms<\/li>\n
  4. Identity-Detecting Advertisement Cameras<\/li>\n
  5. Robot Scouts<\/li>\n
  6. Predicting Mistakes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    I remember seeing the film in June 2002 (if I remember correctly Frank Skinner<\/a> and Graham Linehan<\/a> were also there) and the tech aspect that struck me most was the\u00a0multi-touch<\/a>\u00a0hologram display Cruise’s character manipulates in order to view images.<\/div>\n

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    Were Apple’s engineers influenced by this when the created the iPhone<\/a> multi-touch interface<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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    This video points out that the sound on an iPhone appears to be some reference to the film.<\/p>\n

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    UPDATE 14\/11\/08: Engadget have a video of the interface<\/a> developed by one of the science advisors from the film (along with a team of other visionaries).<\/p>\n

    Dubbed g-speak, the OS combines “gestural i\/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels,” to deliver what the creators call “the first major step in [a] computer interface since 1984.”.<\/p>\n

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    \ng-speak overview 1828121108<\/a> from john underkoffler<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    > Read the full article at Wired<\/a>
    \n>     Minority Report<\/a> at the IMDb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Wired magazine have an interesting feature on six real gadgets that Minority Report predicted correctly. The 2002 sci-fi thriller stars Tom Cruise as a Washington cop in a special unit\u00a0called ‘Precrime’ that apprehends criminals based on\u00a0foreknowledge\u00a0provided by three psychics termed ‘precogs‘. Set in 2054, it features all kinds of interesting technology, partly because in pre-production […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[175,2793,647],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}