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 ideas for the film's technology to Roger Ebert before the film's release: News sources have noted the future technologies depicted in the film were prescient. "The Guardian" published a piece titled "Why Minority Report was spot on" in June 2010, and the following month "Fast Company" examined seven crime fighting technologies in the film similar to ones then currently appearing. It summarized that "the police state imagined in the Tom Cruise flick feels a bit more real every day." Other major media outlets such as the "Wall Street Journal" have published articles dedicated to this phenomenon, and National Public Radio