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Wired on the technology predicted by Minority Report

by Ambrose Heron on 12/11/2008

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 called ‘Precrime’ that apprehends criminals based on foreknowledge provided by three psychics termed ‘precogs‘. Set in 2054, it features all kinds of interesting technology, partly because in pre-production [...]

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Ten Things Movies Told Us About Technology This Summer

by Ambrose Heron on 11/08/2008

Hollywood has long had an interesting relationship with technology from classic films like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) to nonsense like The Net (1995). Since the rise of the PC over 15 years ago, computers haven’t always always been portrayed accurately in films. For example in real life when you download something on your computer, [...]

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