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Minority Report: Technology for Real Life

Posted by: Sarah Nagelbush on Jun 01, 2010

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In the 2002 movie Minority Report (based on the book of the same title by Philip K. Dick), the main character (played by Tom Cruise) used a computer that he operated with just his hands. It turns out that that technology might possibly be available to us as soon as within the next five years.

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