Proponents suggest the tech could revolutionize safety, while others worry about surveillance.
John Anderton, the chief of a futuristic police force known as PreCrime, stands before a large translucent screen. He is waiting for a ball, which indicates a future crime, to drop. Anderton, a character played by Tom Cruise in the 2002 film Minority Report, represents a world where all premeditated crime has been eradicated, aided by a hybrid system of tech and meta-humans that can predict and spot ne’er-do-wells.
The concept feels both futuristic and familiar. The original source material might have been published in 1956, but two decades after Minority Report was released, and a little more than two decades before the events of the film will take place, we’re actually closer to that world than ever before — and we can thank AI.
