...reportDestruction of Home through Technology In this section I will argue that home in Minority Report (51) fails to be established due to the invasion of technology. I will achieve this by looking at three aspects of the film that depict the loss of home. I have chosen this film as it clearly depicts a technologically advanced world, where privacy has been lost. Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg in 2002, is partially based on the novel Minority Report (ref), written by Philip K. Dick in 1956. The film depicts Washington D.C. in the year 1954. It focuses on John Anderton, who uses precognitive images in order to stop crimes before they happen. The city is an extension of home that leads to the loss of autonomy. This is achieved through eye recognition scanners that are placed throughout the built environment. They are used constantly to identify individuals and are seen in department stores, offices and within people’s ‘homes’. Therefore, constant interaction between technology and the individual takes place. The significance of being recognised regularly in a public space is used to make the individual feel comfortable and familiar, notions of home. The city can therefore be seen as an extension of domesticity. However, this creates blurred lines between the city and home in the sense of a single building. However, this creates a digital invasion of home evidently shown by the pursuing of Anderton through the city (‘home’) by the authorities. In this...
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...determined to show that the program is flawless. However, he sees that the next murder seen is that of Anderton himself murdering a man named Leo Crow. Now Anderton knows that he has no intention whatsoever of killing this person because he does not know who he is, so he immediately sees it as a means to frame him for a murder to make the unit look bad. So what he does is he goes to the woman who helped develop the precrime unit, Dr. Iris Hineman, to give him a clue whether the system that he thought was perfect maybe flawed after all. He finds out that there is a minority report, or a vision that deviates from the majority of the predictions seen that may say otherwise about the murder and learns that Agatha, the female precog, is the key to solving this mystery. So Anderton has an eye transplant to confuse the eye scanners that check your id to steal Agatha. From her he learns that the he does not have a minority report and that he is destined to kill Crow. He hunts Crow down to find answers but realizes that this is all a means to distract him from the extra vision hat Agatha sees of a murder of a woman, her mother, and that the perpetrator is high rank in the department of precrime. Lamar Burgess, the other founder of the precrime lab, becomes frustrated that his system cannot work without Agatha so he...
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...PAGE 3 Introduction In 1956, renowned science fiction author Philip K. Dick published a short story titled ‘The Minority Report’. Set in the year 2054, the plot revolves around three mutants who can foresee all crime before it occurs. When plugged into a great machine, these ‘precogs’ allow the arrest of suspects prior to any infliction of public harm. Although at the time it was published it seemed a bit farfetched and fantastic, in 2016, sixty years after the iconic story first appeared, we may be closer than ever to developing sophisticated and intricate machines capable of serving the exact same purpose of preconceiving events before they occur. Facilitating this quasi psychic facet, are not mutants or individuals with special abilities, as depicted in the story, but the ubiquitous and ever increasing quantum of data. The data deluge – the large quantity of multifarious and...
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...| | Bottom of Form * * * Charles Arthur * The Guardian, Wednesday 16 June 2010 15.30 EDT * Jump to comments (99) Why Minority Report was spot on It's only eight years since Steven Spielberg's Minority Report amazed audiences with its futuristic technology. But now science is fast catching up Tom Cruise as John Anderton in Minority Report - an early adopter of gesture-based computing. Photograph: 20th Century Fox The launch of Microsoft's new Kinect games system, which allows players to run, jump, punch and shoot without having to wear strange clothing or hold any kind of controller, has got technology and cinema buffs alike thinking of Tom Cruise again. Specifically, the moment in the film Minority Report when Cruise, playing police chief John Anderton, tries to figure out film footage and computer data by waving his hands around in mid-air to manipulate it: turning it, shrinking it, pushing it aside, revolving it. Give it time: in a few years, we'll more than likely be controlling our computers in a similar way. 1. Minority Report 2. Production year: 2002 3. Country: USA 4. Cert (UK): 12 5. Runtime: 145 mins 6. Directors: Steven Spielberg 7. Cast: Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, Samantha Morton, Tom Cruise 8. More on this film When Minority Report came out in the summer of 2002 – the iPod was less than a year old and the iPhone and iPad weren't even gleams in Steve Jobs's glinting eyes – its technological...
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...The Minority Report Big brother is watching phenomenal has many people in the world feeling that their lives have be intruded upon and their privacy invaded. Imaging living in a world where everything you do is being recorded and watched by others including you most intimate private thoughts. The Short story “The Minority Report written by Phillip K. Dick in 1956 and later made into a movie directed by well know movie director Steven Spielberg in 2002. The Minority Report is based on that very concept of precognition. Precognition is the ability to see into the future to be able to predict something before it happens. In both the short story and the movie it takes place in the very distant future. There are three individual who have the special gift of precognition, two males and one female who are referred to as Precogs. The Precogs are held in a facility called Precrime because they have the ability to foresee future murders and the people who will commit these murders. With this knowledge it allows the police to arrest and lock those individuals away in prison for the rest of their lives based on precognition. Precrime can be described as a type of police headquarters/prison. In the short story Precrime is located in New York City, but in the movie it is located in Washington DC. Both the story and the movie had many similarities and only a few differences. The main character in both short story and movie is John Anderton who is the head of...
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...Mini Cases NWM: I believe the software system that best supports the company’s strategy is the “knowledge base and network” management system. The organizations mission is to “Help Clients Achieve Financial Security over a Lifetime.” The description they give for the path of getting there is as follows: “They want to leverage the traditional strengths of customer relationships, expert advice and strong product value to become the premier company helping clients achieve lifelong financial security. They will add specialists that will enable the traditional life insurance sales force to draw upon product and investment experts as needed to address clients increasing complex financial security needs. The knowledge base and networking system will “enable agents to examine the knowledge base for simple issues and bring in (virtually) financial product experts as needed when advising clients.” This system fits perfectly into the balanced scorecard. Under financial, the company wants to manage operating expenses. By only utilizing financial product experts when they are needed, this will allow the company to control costs for their services. Within the customer section of the scorecard, they want to provide expert guidance and needs-based planning. With the knowledge and networking system, they can tailor their approach to each customer individually to provide the best customer service. Under Process, they want to enhance representative productivity. Again, the knowledge and...
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...Can We Predict the Future? In the future world of Minority Report, there was three special people that were born from drug addicts that were supposedly to be able to predict the future. These pre-cogs as they were called in the movie had to ability to predict murders in the future, but the problem was whether all these murders were actually going to happen. There within lies the question of whether you can charge someone with a severe crime such as murder before they actually commit it. The pre-cogs were used by the government to prevent crime in the capital. The thing that the government was hiding was the fact that not all three of the pre-cogs were having the same exact vision of the murders they predicted. This leads to the problem of if you can actually charge these people with crimes when these pre-cogs don’t even totally agree on it. I believe the government went too far in this aspect of hiding the secret between the pre-cogs not always agreeing to murders. This program had a flaw and it should have been shutdown. I do not believe that we will have the technology to be able to pre-determine crimes committed. If somehow we happen to be able to develop something like it, the program will differ from the movie. I don’t think people would allow the government to arrest people before they actually commit the crime. If it managed to get into law, I believe pre-crime would have to have less severe penalties than if the crime actually did happen. People who believe...
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...KANT EXERCISE 1. Does the fallibility of the system—the fact that “minority reports” suggest that some few of those treated as murderers had a “possible alternative future” in which they would not actually have committed the crime— make that system morally unjustifiable according to Act Utilitarianism? According to Act Utilitarianism, the act that makes the greatest happiness to the group will be morally permissible. In fact, a person who is criminal will be judged by his ability to hurt other or committing a crime. The consequence of arresting the potential murderer will help to maximize victim and their family’s utility. Otherwise, if we choosing to refraining from arresting, murderer will be happy; and the victims will experience pain. In fact, one murderer can bring pain to many other victims; therefore, even if the system may be fallible Act utilitarianism says that it is morally justified to detain the potential murderers. How does this fallibility affect the appropriate description of the “maxim” describing the use of precrime for testing by Kant’s Categorical Imperative Procedure? I.e., should the maxim to be tested include acknowledgment of the system’s fallibility? State the appropriate maxim. The maxim of the use of precrime has stated that every potential murder should be put into jail to prevent possible crime. However, this maxim will be wrong if there is no crime that occurs. The fallibility failed the maxim because it stated that there...
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...protect the interest of the public. In my opinion, in the next ten years technological progress will dramatically increase predictive policing to a much higher level. I hope it will make the world a safer place to live. There are a few real life parallels between the surveillance technology in Minority Report and technologies used by police, government agencies and corporations. First of all, in Minority Report, government agents use “sick sticks” to calm criminal suspects. Police uses special devices that emit painful noises when they need to disturb crowds. It was used during Euro Cup this summer when Polish and Russian soccer fans were involved in a fight. Secondly, police uses Facebook to monitor criminals’ activity and prevent them from committing wrongful acts. I wasn’t aware of how Facebook could be used as crime prevention tool until the last summer. I was visiting my friend in London when the rioting started as a result of the death of local men who was shot by a police officer. Every day’s news reported the number of arrests. Among arrested where those who had posted on Facebook in support for rioting. Many of them didn’t take a part in rioting. Moreover, in Minority Report corporations used Anderson’s biometric data for advertisement. For example, at the subway station and later at the mall billboard were offering him products at his interests. I think Amazon uses similar technique. The last time I bought a textbook from them, they recommended me to buy other...
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...“Fifty Shades Darker” star Jamie Dornan confirmed his role as the Nazi Anti-Hero for the upcoming film “Anthropoid” during the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Dornan will play the role of Jan Kubis, one of two Czech agents and dissidents who annihilated Reinhard Heydrich, one of the “Holocaust” architects during World War II. Joining him would be another Irish actor, Cillian Murphy, to play as his partner, Josef Gabcik. The Operation was hidden as “Operation Anthropoid.” According to TIME, Dornan described his character with a deep conviction to kill for the better. "This is murder in a sense, but it’s for a greater good.” He compared his role between Kubis and his role as Paul Spector in “The Fall”, who kills for nonsense. During a press conference,...
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...In the movie Minority Report murder is seen from the future and stopped before the murder happens. In 2066 I would think there will be a time machine that will take you to the past. In Minority report they have the technology to scan people's eyes for security purposes.Also hounds that search the area and scan people's eyes.The bad thing about the eye scanners is if your wanted you have to take out your eyes and put new ones in. In fifty years I think there will be better ways to prevent murders and new ways to put people to prison.This would stop a lot of murders and not as much crime.If a person is on the run people would catch him faster because of new technology.Also of the eye scanners people would find the person faster. In the Minority...
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...fine each of these terms? aTe two key terms in okin's arlrcle' How does she de- originallypublisheditlheBostonReview,october/November199?'ReprintedinsusanMollerOkin'IsMulticulc' Nussbaum (Princeton: PrinceMatthew Howard' and Martha turalism Bad for women? edited by Joshua cohen, Press, 1999). ton UniversitY Chapter 7 . Gender 287 2. Why, according to Kymticka, do certain minority groups deserve special group rights? 3. \Mhat is the liberal response to Okin's crlttque?'Nhatrejoinder does Olcrn offer to this response? Until the past few decades, minority groups-immigrants as well as indigenous peoples-were typically expected to assimilate into majority cultures. This assimilationist expectation is now often considered oppressive, and many Western countries are seeking to devise new policies that are more responsive to persistent cultural differences. The appropriate policies vary with context: Countries such as England with established churches or state supported religious education find it hard to resist demands to extend state support to minority religious schools; countries such as France...
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...Nobody wants to be a puppet, dangling from the strings as somebody else directs your every movement. Humans want control of their own lives, and if given an “ugly” destiny, they will make every attempt to destroy that fate and create their own. Both Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg, and Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, demonstrate human determination to create their own path. Humans crave the opportunity to shape their own destiny. When given a frightful or potentially life-altering destiny, humans decide not to simply accept it, but fight it. Humans are born with a fighting attitude. If given a destiny that is frightful, they will make every attempt to abolish that fate or at least delay that certain destiny from occurring....
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...ggrgegregrgregrg fefe A report or account is any informational work (usually of writing, speech, television, or film) made with the specific intention of relaying information or recounting certain events in a widely presentable form. Written reports are documents which present focused, salient content to a specific audience. Reports are often used to display the result of an experiment, investigation, or inquiry. The audience may be public or private, an individual or the public in general. Reports are used in government, business, education, science, and other fields. Reports use features such as graphics, images, voice, or specialized vocabulary in order to persuade that specific audience to undertake an action. One of the most common formats for presenting reports is IMRAD: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. This structure is standard for the genre because it mirrors the traditional publication of scientific research and summons the ethos and credibility of that discipline. Reports are not required to follow this pattern, and may use alternative patterns like the problem-solution format. Additional elements often used to persuade readers include: headings to indicate topics, to more complex formats including charts, tables, figures, pictures, tables of contents, abstracts,and nouns summaries, appendices, footnotes, hyperlinks, and references. Some examples of reports are: scientific reports, recommendation reports, white papers, annual reports, auditor's reports, workplace...
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...the media, for example the Brixton riots in the 80's, stopping and searching black youths in the 1990's or the lack of recruitment of ethnic minority officers. How ever it took the murder of Stephen Lawrence to put the subject on the political and media agenda. Brutality The media shows incidents of the Public services portraying them as if they are using excessive force. Sometimes their claims are unfunded and damage the public perception of the Police. Image of the Public services The public services are portrayed in a variety of different ways by the media. The coverage can be both real, such as Police interceptors or through fictional programs such as Casualty or The Bill. ( And we all know Bradshaw loves The Bill :) A UK study shows that The Sun newspaper dedicates around 30 per cent to crime news. This highlights the time and energy spent on the portrayal of the Public services. Blind obedience The media sometimes choose to portray the public services as lacking discipline and judgement if they blindly obedient when following orders. Blind obedience An example of this was the Hillsborough disaster when West Midlands Police ran their own inquiry into the handling of the disaster by South Yorkshire Police, who orchestrated a cover-up, falsified documents and blamed innocent supporters for the tragedy, the independent panel report found. Effects of the negative images on the public services? Take a minute the think about the possible impact this has on the Public services...
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