Technologies in Minority Report Technologies in Minority Report The 2002 science fiction neo-noir film "Minority Report" featured numerous fictional future technologies, which have proven prescient based on developments around the world. Before the film's production began, director Steven Spielberg invited fifteen experts to think about technologies that would be developed by 2054, the setting of the film. After "E.T.", Spielberg started to consult experts, and put more scientific research into his films. In 1999, he invited fifteen experts convened by the Global Business Network, its chairman, Peter Schwartz, and its co-founder Stewart Brand to a hotel in Santa Monica, California for a three-day "think
Technologies in Minority Report conscientiously treated his cinematic representation of the gestural interface as an actual prototype, “We worked so hard to make the gestural interface in the film real. I really did approach the project as if it were an R&D thing.” McDowell teamed up with architect Greg Lynn to work on some of the technical aspects of the production design. McDowell said that "[a] lot of those things Alex cooked up for Minority Report, like the 3-D screens, have become real." Product placement was used to depict the predicted lack of privacy and excessive publicity in a future society. The advertisements in