Module 11

Ryan Williams 

Module 11 

The movie I picked to watch is "Minority Report". In the movie, there are two "types" of computers used. There is one main computer used in this movie. What the computer does is take "precognitive" visions from three different Precogs and sends them all to a computer to be analyzed. The videos are analised by the Precrime police to find out what type of crime is going to happen, where it is going to happen, who it is going to affect, and who is causing the crime. The Precogs brains are wired to the computer and the signals from the Precogs brains are sent through wires to the computer. Once the videos are received, the computer pulls them all up in a 3-d virtual video analysis software. The user of the computer can then fast forward and rewind through the video as well as rotate the angle at which the user is looking. From there, the user identifies key elements from the visions to determine all of the things that they need to stop the crime from happening. 

Of the two parts of the computer, the 3-d video analysis software is definitely probable, the visions of the future from mutated human's brains is pretty ridiculous. The reason I am saying the 3-d video analysis software is probable is because of technologies coming out right now. For one example, Microsoft's "HoloLens" is a type of computer that can be used in a very similar matter to the software in the movie. The HoloLens is a computer that creates an augmented reality around the user and the can interact with holograms through the wearable computer. This is very similar to the software in the movie, the only main difference is that in the movie you do not need to wear any sort of headgear, but you do have to wear a glove to interact with it.