In some of Philip K. Dick's stories, mutant humans called "precogs" can foresee the future (ranging from days to years). In the story called "The Golden Man", an exceptional mutant can predict the future to an indefinite range (presumably up to his death), and thus becomes completely non-human, an animal that follows the predicted paths automatically. Precogs also play an essential role in another of Dick's stories, "The Minority Report", which was turned into a film by Steven Spielberg in 2002.