24: Minority Report

This week, a glimpse of the future with Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi thriller Minority Report. What are the big ideas? When did Cruise start running? Where can we buy one of those holographic computers?

Content warning: violence, suicide, body horror, surgery, gore, drugs, dystopia

Unanswered Questions:

  • Is there anything to the deification of the pre-cogs?
  • What actually happened to Sean?
  • How do we meaningfully resolve the free-will paradox?

Further reading:

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