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The chapter in Films from the Future is based on Minority Report :) Yes, of course the precogs are fantasy, but they are also metaphors for the seductiveness of technologies that give people what they want while robbing them of something they need -- and of the temptation to manipulate the system to bring the tech about.

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Do you think we are in for a future as depicted in Minority Report? Except the god-like Precogs are god-like AIs?

Goodness...as I wrote that, I remember a line from the movie "They are pattern recognition filters, nothing else."

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