Technologies in Minority Report newspaper" would be released, he predicted "around 2015." Tech Watch's 2008 article "‘Minority Report’ e-newspaper on the way" noted that Hearst was "pushing large amounts of cash into" the technology. Spielberg decided to add the jetpacks worn by the policemen as a tribute to old science-fiction serials such as Commando Cody, even though the scientists considered them unrealistic. The jet packs are the only future technology depicted in the film which originated in science fiction. They already exist and perhaps their most famous flights occurred in the pregame ceremonies before Super Bowl I in 1967 and in Los Angeles in
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