Minority Report (film) alone and with Tom Cruise; together they conferred publicly with Ron Howard and Russell Crowe via a similar webcam on the set of "A Beautiful Mind" in New York. The location of the small, uncharted island in the last shot of the film is Butter Island off North Haven, Maine in the Penobscot Bay. Although it takes place in an imagined future world of advanced technology, "Minority Report" attempts to embody a more "realistic" depiction of the future. Spielberg decided that to be more credible, the setting had to keep both elements of the present and ones which specialists expected
Technologies in Minority Report inspired user interfaces. Retina scanners, a form of biometrics, already existed by the time the film appeared in theaters, but media outlets have described the new advanced systems such as those by a Manhattan company named Global Rainmakers Incorporated (GRI) (2010), as similar to the movie's. GRI disputed the notion that its technology could be the threat to privacy it is in the film. "Minority Report is one possible outcome," a corporate official told "Fast Company". "I don't think that's our company's aim, but I think what we're going to see is an environment well beyond what you see in