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makes the important point in his short article on Spielberg’s Minority Report: Why Spielberg’s Vision is Flawed. It was a fun movie, but the future it portrayed was deeply flawed. I’m no sci-fi genius, but a story like that begins from the proposition that the future portrayed is a probable (or possible) extension of today. This is pretty clearly not the case, even for the many efforts to do so throughout the film. Sippey puts it well: “…Minority Report is not a networked future. Spielberg’s vision of the future is, essentially, television writ large, with a frosty layer of ‘Hello, ‘ sprinkled on top.”