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Beberapa gambaran masa depan di film Minority Report:

Here's a look at the future (2054), according to "Minority Report."

Ahead of time with Pre-Crime: The Justice Department's Pre-Crime Unit will
stop killings before they occur, thanks to the images of murders that come
to the unit's psychic Pre-Cogs.

Pre-Cogs in the machine: Pre-Cogs stand for "pre-cognitive," but you already
knew that, right? There are three of them with the terrible psychic gift of
seeing murders before they occur. Lying in a state of semi-consciousness
while floating in a liquid suspension chamber, their visions feed directly
into the imaging equipment of the Pre-Crime team.

Scrubbing the images: Cruise is a master of this method of examining images
from the Pre-Cogs. He looks like a conductor as he uses gloves with glowing
fingertips to manipulate the images on a transparent screen.

Along came a spider: And peeked in her eyeball. Another high-tech law
enforcement tool: robotic Spiders that will be as commonplace as cockroaches
but nosier, jumping on your head to scan your eyes during police sweeps. In
the movie, the sound of the pitter-patter of the Spiders' little feet came
from a recording by researchers at Cornell University of actual spiders
jumping.

The eyes have it: Eye-scanning devices also will be the way to unlock your
office and home doors. In the movie, there are many jeepers-creepers peepers
moments, including an eyes-rolling-in-the-aisles scene and another
eye-opener that brings "A Clockwork Orange" to mind.

Forever branded: Lexus, Aquafina and the Gap will still be here. Lexus
created the car Cruise takes for an assembly ride. The Gap still will be
using retro-music campaigns (remember the swing-music ads?). But this time
it will be Billie Holiday singing "(In My) Solitude" to remind us that we
will never be alone or undetected.

Cyber Parlor: Do you want celebrities to kiss you -- or just flatter you?
You'll be able to experience it all at the Cyber Parlor, where you can have
virtually any experience.

Feed the plants ... or else: All respectable mad scientists in the future
will have plants that can reach out and touch someone, or even grab and
maim.

Hall of Containment: Orwellian name for the prison where would-be murderers
will be housed in a state of suspended animation, thanks to brain-numbing
"halos" affixed to their heads. They have to stand forever upright in
cylindrical tubes, with images of their thwarted crimes endlessly playing in
front of their eyes.

Home for the holographs: People will be making home videos, but they'll be
really cool three-dimensional images that are captured on small, transparent
disks.

Jet-packing heat: Cops will use jet packs to chase bad guys literally up and
down alleys.

Live news coverage: Newspapers will feature moving pictures that keep up
with breaking news. But does that mean that we'll have to buy only one paper
and read it forever?

Mag-Lev: Short for Magnetic-Levitation, the system that allows for traffic
to run up, down and upside down without having to worry about any pesky
traffic inhibitors, like, say, gravity.

A mall world after all: Shopping will still be big -- and noisier than ever.
Mall City is a chattering place of billboards with moving animated images
that talk to you by name and know your retail history, thanks to eye-scan
identification. Talk about targeted advertising.

Shake a stick: The Sick Stick would be nice to have. It causes immediate
involuntary vomiting (parents could throw out the syrup of Ipecac).
"Generation X" author Douglas Coupland reportedly thought up the upchuck
device for Spielberg.

The Sprawl: That's what we call Los Angeles now, but in the future that's
what we'll call bad parts of town, where you can buy little mini-inhalers
filled with illicit drugs.

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