| Dick isn't the source of most of the ideas discussed in the article. Minority Report is a pretty short read, and well worth the hour or two it takes. Social Advertising: There isn't any advertising. The only media that's referenced is the radio which is a broadcast medium, and as such can't be individually tuned. Virtual Shopping: Anderton buys some essentials at a drugstore, and a second hand set of clothes. It's important to the plot of the story that he takes the risk of exposing himself to get these items. Crime: Alright, I'll give you that one. Pre crime is a cool concept. Robots: The only automatic machines mentioned in the story are those that tend to the needs of the pre cogs (presumably life support type stuff) and things like automatic card printers. Hardly robotic spiders. Gesture Based Computing: In the story, Anderton has to lookup where data will be stored on a tape and manually copy it to another reel of tape. That's as close as he gets to a cool interface. Cars: Flying cars feature into the story, but they required a human driver. Anderton has to ask his wife to take the wheel at one point as he has to deal with something else. Sometimes it's alright to acknowledge that an adaptation of a work has added to it. |