Malik Jones

In the movie Minority report, there are three individuals called pre-cogs. These Pre-cogs are the main source of pre-crime. The Pre-cogs known as the twins (Dash and Arthur) and Agatha were used for there enhanced abilities to stop murders before they happen.  Reducing crime by 90%, I think it's amazing for people like these to have visions about an event that didn't happen yet.

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Define the term, Clarity which is used in the movie minority report. Clarity is a highly popular, highly addictive recreation drug with effects similar to heroin. Injection occurs in the form of a transparent gaseous drug administered using plastic inhalers. This is what John anderton uses to help him sleep and forget about the incident that happened with his son Sean 6 years ago. 

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My favorite scene in minority report was when they were investigating a murder that had not happen yet, where The color of two balls describe what type of murder it is. red ball for passion and a brown ball for predetermined. This scene is very unique and exclusive to me. this shows how much technology has changed and can be like this in the future. 

Nick Erhart Broadcast Media Final

Nick Erhart

   Minority Report takes place in 2054 where Pre-Crime, a police department that can arrest murders before they actually happen. This information is provided by the Pre-Cogs. Pre-Crime Captain John Anderton sees an audit showing himself killing a man named Leo Crow in 36 hours. John safely escapes but has to find who set him up before being arrested.

Science used in Minority Report

1.   Science is a fast growing topic in our society. In the movie Minority Report it predicts how science will effect our lives in 2054. We learn new things everyday in science that will help us create labs and tests to help better our understanding of things. The more research we do the closer we are to be able to create important things, like cures or vaccines. While science is advancing this could impact our society in a more negative way. Our privacy could be at it's minimum. Shown in Minority Report, science and technology has made people have very little privacy.

Technology shown in Minority Report

2.   The technology in Minority Report seems pretty reasonable. Not everything may be seen as recent as 2054, but everything in the movie could be seen in the future at sometime. Sick Sticks, Guns, and the headband that makes people go into a coma are all possible weapons that could be used by police forces.  With technology advancing this fast we are able to imagine how different our world would be like in 2054. In Minority Report there is a scene that shows how the roads have changed. The way how the cars can drive up walls is a possible outcome but to be able to construct an entire new roadway system that has advanced technology to make the cars stay on the rode is not something we would be able to see in 2054. It would take much longer to let alone invent it and build it. Besides that, the predictions that Minority Report made of what technology would look like in 2054 seems very believable.


3.   If i was in the Supreme Court it would be a hard decision for me to choose if i want to support Pre-Crime. The system involved sacrificing 3 humans to save countless lives but there are many variables too, because the 3 Pre-Cogs are technically being kept hostage I would choose not to support this. If the system changed itself to be more reasonable then I could change my mind. For example the Pre-Cogs wouldn't be kept hostage but actually would come in as a worker like everyone else in Pre-Crime. If Pre-Crime had higher security and a better understanding of the Pre-Cogs then I would also be convinced. In the movie they almost never made it on time before a murder. The things they see by the Pre-Cogs are very blurry and they have to de-code where the murder is, when it is, and who it is. It almost seems very insufficient. The problem with privacy is a factor too. It shouldn't be a problem if they only see things about murders but realistically society would see it as some type of spying device and protest against it.

Hanan Richmond Blog #1

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In the film Minority Report, the pre-cogs are used to detect a crime before it happens. They are used for this because there was a lot of crime being committed. And with these three pre-cogs they brought the crime rate down a great percentage. But as far as the pre-cogs personal lives? They didn't have one. They lived in a pool, were fed through tubes, and never left from the positions they were in which were layer out on their backs.  In the medical view point of how the pre-cogs were treated, it could've have been very bad for there health. Cause they weren't getting any exercise and they never moved around. They had no interaction with the real world. I think humans some day could function like the pre-cogs but I don't think it would be a good situation to a certain extent. Because they explained they saw these things when they were sleep, and that would just cause so much paranoia. It could happen though but i don't suggest it.

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Infallible police state were nothing can possibly go wrong. Infallible means "Incapable of being wrong or making mistakes." I personally don't think this term should be apart of society because society does have flaws not everything 100% perfect. The flaws can be fixed but we shouldn't act like they never happen. 

  People think that New Trier High School is this amazing and there kids never do anything wrong but on the new I saw that the NT students trespassed on Loyola Acadamey's school grounds and spray painted everywhere. Thats a vivid example of how people like to sugar code things into thinking there society has NO flaws or mistakes when it actually does.

                        

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       My favorite part of the movie is when he went through is changing process to get back into the Pre-Crime lab to get Agatha. Specifically when is got new eye balls and to a shot under his chin to rearrange is face. I just think that was a very good action part it was very interesting. I don't think that this is something that can occur in the future though because to be its just unrealistic. But Im not taking anything away from the scene it was a very eye catching scene and you can tell it was very thought through. I highly enjoyed it. 

Anthony O

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Pre Cogs are used to prevent crime in the film. Pre cogs have qualities to see the future and they see crimes before they happen.The Pre Cogs live in pools with other Pre cogs they are connected to a screen to display images in their heads. It is unethical to treat any human the way pre cogs were treated,  pre crime takes away their ability to be human and makes them machines. The Pre Cogs don't have a life of their own and controlled by the people who work in their facility. I don't believe humans will ever be able to function like Agatha, Daschell, and Arthur. It seems impossible for anyone to know the future before it presents itself as the present.

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Define term… Protective Government. People were punished because they were going to commit a crime even if they haven't committed the crime, because pre crime is a sign of a totally protective government. A protective government should be apart of the world it prevents crimes without anyone getting hurt. Had this principle been in place many innocent people would still be alive today. The Pre Crime was highly effective it  decreased crime by a rate of 90%.

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My favorite scene in the film is when John Anderton shot the man who the pre cogs predicted he would shoot. This scene was very unique because even when he had control of his fate he didn't have control of his fate. He was forced to shoot the man he always said he would shoot but in the end he learned he would be forced to shoot the man. No this isn't something that will ever present itself to the real world. But I would have to see how effective it would be in the real world to decide if it should be in thereal world.

Alex Rohner Broadcast Media Final

Alex Rohner Minority Report Blog 

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In Minatory Report, the Pre-crime operation uses humans called "Pre-cogs". Pre-cogs can see into the future and determine violent crimes before they happen. When a Pre-cog predicts a crime the name of the victim and the criminal are printed on a color coded ball (i.e. red for crime of passion). The precime comity then sees the vision of the crime and goes to the crime scene to stop it before it happens. The pre-cogs are kept in a pool where they lay helplessly in a half-asleep half-awake state. The pre-cogs have no control over their actions and are forced to lay there and see the future. These pre-cogs can not live their life and some might consider it torture to be kept in the conditions that they are kept in. It is extremely unethical the way they are treated because these Pre-cogs are human beings with feelings and a mind with their own ideas. They have no life to live except to lay unaware of their surroundings and see painful visions of violet crime. In the real world, I don't know if humans will ever be able to function like Pre-cogs. There are certainly many myths of people seeing into the future but it doesn't seem realistic to me. But anything is possible.

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In Minority Report the media endorses many of the features and positive outcomes of the Pre-crime system. They would show P.S.A. commercials of people effected by Pre-crime and how it saved their life, or the life of a loved one. The media had a huge say in what the public thought of Pre-crime. This can be an issue in society because the public isn't exposed to the negatives of Pre-crime. If the government controls the media they can control what the public thinks about a specific topic. I don't think that media endorsements of technology should exist if the certain technology is as big as Pre-crime is. Although, I think the public should be aware the Pre-crim because criminals could be scared to commit their crimes if they know that the will be caught.

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My favorite scene in Minority Report was when after John Anderton has been running from the Pre-crime officers and is about to commit the murder that the Pre-cogs predicted. I liked this particular part because you are almost certain that the Pre-cogs were wrong and that the crime would not happen. But then there is a twist when Leo Crow pulled the trigger himself while John Anderton was holding the gun. The Pre-cogs did see the vision correctly but it wasn't Anderton's fault. I don't think that this is something that would happen in our future because it seems very unrealistic that people could ever see the future in the way the the Pre-cogs did.

Elias Hubbard Final

Elias Hubbard

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In the movie Minority Report John Anderson (Tom Cruise) uses the technology of his time to catch potential murderers. The most important of these technologies are the Pre-Cogs, three humans who have the ability to see murders before they happen. The Pre-Crime unit stops murders, using the visions the Pre-Cogs produce. To facilitate visions the Pre-Cogs must be kept in a very secure environment. They live in a small pool of conducive liquid. They are feed and cleaned daily, they even have their teeth brushed. They are not fully conscious and can't form their own thoughts. Although they are taken care of, the Pre-Cog's can't even really be considered "alive" in this situation. They don't have the freedom that is promised to all americans, and it is inhuman to keep them in this environment. The three Pre-Cogs have an incredible ability, but realistically it is impossible for anyone to fully see the future. Strong intuition may resemble fortune telling, but is is actually just the subconscious, connecting past experiences.

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A Totally Protective Government: 

1.  The American Government in Minority Report keeps it's citizens very safe. The Pre-Crime program has effectively stopped all murders in Washington D.C., and is being spread to the rest of the nation. 
2.  Partially, the all governments should protects their citizens, but the extremes that the US government goes to in Minority Report are just too far. It is far too easy to start only protecting one group, instead of the whole.
3.  If the government was more protective we the Boston Bombings might not have happened, as the NSA or FBI would have stopped the bombers. 

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 My favorite scene from the movie Minority Report is when John Anderson is jumping from car to car on the vertical highway to escape the police. The angles and camera work make the scene suspenseful and the animation looks fantastic. The tension rises as Anderson jumps from car to car until he reaches a balcony and smashes through a window. The technology to make cars that can drive themselves and drive vertically already exists, but it is not yet practical for use. The Bullet Train in japan uses magnetic rails to hover over its tracks and can move at incredible speeds. Cars like that are cool and could reduce congestion significantly, along with stopping almost all car accidents, but I think the future of transportation is public transportation. It reduces carbon emissions and is often faster that personal transport. 

Leor Miller // Blog

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The movie Minority Report uses science in a somewhat unrealistic way. The pre-cogs are used to prevent crimes from happening, because they can see the future in their dreams. This is the result of their parents having been addicted to Neroin, a futuristic drug that passes down the genes that causes the pre-cogs' ability to see the future.  The pre-cogs, who are actually just people who have been taken in order to use their bodies to predict crimes that will happen. They live on floating rafts inside of a closely monitored pool of water. Their minds are connected to machines via wires that have been attached to their heads. The pre-cogs don't really live, however. Their lives only serve one purpose, which is crime prevention, which has confined them to the pool that they exist in. These pre-cogs are unable to use the bathroom, eat food, drink water, or interact with anyone. The only time they are awake is while a crime is occurring in their dreams. They're kept in a constant state of dreaming through the use of mind-altering drugs, which they haven't consented to. These practices are unethical, they treat humans as machines. They treat the pre-cogs as if they have no purpose other than to use as catalysts in crime prevention. The pre-cogs are dehumanized, enslaved, and disrespected. These practices are unethical in all ways.

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An infallible police state is a governmental system in which the government controls the choices and lives of those they govern by seemingly faultless police surveillance and action. Pre-Crime shows that police and law enforcement are ominpotent and all knowing. It teaches people to fear what the government knows about them and how it can be used against them. An infallible police state creates a culture of fear in that state in order to keep its citizens in line. No, an infallible police state should not be a part of our world. Despite the crimes that would be avoided, there would be significant freedoms that would have to be restricted or totally given up. Had Pre-Crime existed today, many violent crimes could have been prevented. However, this level of power held by the government and police could (and probably would) end up in a disastrous situation. This is power that could and would be easily abused, no matter how much crime it could prevent.

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My favorite part of the film was when Danny makes the discovery that Lamar Burgess murdered Ann Lively. It’s dramatic, shocking, and suspenseful. Danny’s discovery prompts other realizations that Pre-Crime has flaws in its system and is not infallible. The way he discovers this is that he realizes that murders could go undetected under certain circumstances. Since the case surrounding Ann Lively is one with confusing elements of it, Danny decided to look further into it. He figures out that if Pre-Crime stopped a murder, someone dressed in the same clothes could murder the person, after the officers leave, in the same way that the murder was predicted to happen. The person who monitors cameras would see this occurring and delete it because that crime was thought to have already been stopped, and this would be a duplicate. Danny considers possible perpetrators for the murder of Ann Lively, and he draws the conclusion that Lamar Burgess is the one who murdered her. Burgess is the creator of Pre-Crime, and he would be the first one to know how to manipulate the system. The possibility of this Pre-Crime monitoring technology being used in our society in the future is pretty plausible, considering the level of technology that we have today. Even though it may be introduced into our lives, that doesn’t mean it should happen. Believing that this Pre-Crime system is infallible would be a very harmful belief to hold. The possibility of someone else committing a murder after the person who was supposed to have committed it having already been punished creates a system that can be very easily manipulated.