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Minority Report

        The movie, Minority Report, is one of my favorite movies, it takes place in the year 2054. They use a lot of computer and network systems in this movie. One of them was an eye scanning system, the government has an ID system that goes around scanning the irises of the people of the community when they are searching for someone the tiny eight legged robot that looked like a spider they sent out to scan the residents to identify who they were relaying the information back to the authorities. In India they have already scanned the iris of 150 million citizens and they use this technology for border agencies control, around the world. So travelers that have their iris scanned can travel in and out of the UK across the US Canadian border without having to using passport.  We also have a system a little like this that is the Chip they put in to animals so find out where they are from and other information on them. I also saw that the military actually has insect robots that they use for recoconnaissance missions. There is also a nonmilitary one too that can detect earthquakes, and can be sent down a volcano and it can detect the heat from a volcano explosion with infrared sensors.   

       They had cars that were voice- activated and drove by itself and drove where you tell it to go and it floated above the ground, it ran using a system called magnetic levitation.  Today the magnetic system is being used in railways across the world, making it so the trains can move at high speeds up to 361 mph. Also self-driving is practically here, Google driverless cars is a project Google is working on the software that powers these cars is called Google Chauffeur, it goes around navigating the city’s and it can drive up to 75 mph.

        In the movie they show home video’s that are a 3D hologram and as you move around the room you can see the 3D hologram image from all different angles. Holograms have been around since the 19 century in the form of images projected on glass called the projector, but viewing 3D images from different angles, called motion parallax, nobody has been able to figure that out.

       The police in the movie had a thing they called a “sick stick” that when they turned it on and touched a person, it made the person lose control of their bowels and/or they start throwing up. In today reality we don’t have something like this that exists. But when I searched about it I was amazed that scientists are working on machines that can impair hearing by beams of sound, and in California police are testing weapons that look like a flashlight but shining the light in the eyes causes’ temporary blindness and disorientation.

      They had personalized billboard ads that tack people by cameras with biometric sensors that could tell who the person was and it could tell what state of mind they were in, like if they were mad or scared or nerves. Right now we don’t have anything like this, but in our world today I think anything is possible and that something like this can’t be that far behind.  

     They had E-paper screens that updated in real time, and on the sides of cereal boxes there was a cartoon animal that was dancing around on it.  In reality today, Korean electronics giant LG, has a flexible plastic e-paper that could come out in the next few years.