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The Future Can Be Seen. Murder Can be Prevented. The Guilty Punished Before the Crime is Committed. The System is Perfect. It’s Never Wrong. Until It Comes After You.<\/p>\nMinority Report<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He stared at his screen. In absence he rotated the model. The scene ran through his mind over and over. It just did not make sense. How on earth could they have known? I mean he had seen The Matrix, Terminator, I, Robot and – of course – Minority Report<\/a>. But this one? For real? I mean he had heard of those pre-crime pilot projects where – based on an algorithm- the police would send policeman to patrol in neighborhoods that were more likely to be a place of crime conviction<\/a> or even put selected individuals under surveillance<\/a>. But this one was different. He had never committed a crime, he was the normal guy from next door. He was a respected engineer. It was not to be expected, predicted, prevented? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How could they have known? He had talked to nobody! Not his best friend. Not his dog. Not even himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The CAD tool popped up and made a proposal for what he was supposedly planning to do next<\/a>. In absence he arbitrarily clicked on an icon to trigger the next best operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The scene reappeared. When he pulled up the road that evening, he already saw from afar that something was going on: They were at least 15 policeman, heavily armed and armored and evenly distributed around his house, six cars with flashing red-and-blue lights having stopped in front of his home blocking the street in both directions. They did not notice him as he turned around the corner and watched the scenery from a safe distance.
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John Anderton: There hasn’t been a murder in 6 years. There’s nothing wrong with the system, it is–
Danny Witwer: Perfect. I agree. But if there’s a flaw, it’s human. It always is.<\/p>\nMinority Report<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

On the screen the design exploration tool <\/a>interrupted his memories with a pop-up notification: Optimizer finished. Please review results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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