Volume 49, Number 13 · August 15, 2002
Prospero on the Run
By Geoffrey O'Brien
Minority Report
a film directed by Steven Spielberg
Philip K. Dick's short story 'The Minority Report,' which was first published in the magazine Fantastic Universe in 1956, posits a future America in which crime has been virtually abolished through the employment of mentally retarded people—'gibbering, fumbling creatures, with...enlarged heads and wasted bodies'—who possess the wild talent of seeing crimes before they happen. Wired to a network of computers, the 'pre-cogs' transmit visions of future events, on the basis of which future criminals are arrested and incarcerated in a vast detention camp.
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