Co.Create | creativity + culture + commerce: When Steven Spielberg asked MIT researchers to John Underkoffler to envision the future for his 2002 sci-fi movie Minority Report, many of the resulting scenarios—drones, ID scans, consumer-tailored advertising—anticipated technologies that would soon become commonplace.
Now, producers for Fox TV's Minority Report spin-off (debuting Monday September 21st) have again turned to MIT, recruiting Media Lab graduate Greg Borenstein to set the futuristic stage for its story. Set in 2065, this Minority Report follows retired "pre-cog" Dash (Stark Sands), who uses his psychic gifts to help Washington D.C. detective Lara Vega (Meagan Good) stop crimes before they happen.
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I am always intrigued by movies and shows that are based in the future. I like to see what people think will happen and what they do with it. So for a show to take advice from people who study the future as their job is a really good balance of truth and imagination. No one ever knows what the future holds but to take what things are being worked on now and projecting what will be plausible in the future is a smart way to keep the audience intrigued and amazed. Shows or movies taken so far out of reach get labeled as interesting but never plausible but to have something plausible makes your audience care and still connect to them during this time period even if it is set in the future. After reading this article I am now going to check out this show and see if does balance this idea and I hope it does.
I’ve always quite liked movies and books that take place in the future. I like seeing what the author thinks is going to happen, and for some reason I find it amusing how many sci-fi books and movies portray the future as some variation of highly oppressive police state that spies on its citizens. So I’m really curious to see what happens with this show. What kind of future will they portray now that they’ve decided to bring in people who are actually studying/inventing the kinds of technology they use in their invented time period? I feel like it has the potential to either add a sense of believability to it or will it somehow get rid of the sense of wild imagination that I normally associate with sci-fi futures. Going by the things they talked about in this article at least I feel like the first one is way more likely. Contact lenses that act as computer screens? Sign me up. That would actually be enough to get me to go back to wearing contacts.
There are so many different references to advanced technology in movies and television, and there is one major aspect that determines whether or not that particular show is going to succeed or not; and that is research. When a show or movie decides to go down the path or futuristic technology, but wants it to stay within reach of the audience, doing proper research is crucial. For example, even animated children's movies such as Big Hero 6, did huge amounts of research just to see how possible it was to create a Baymax, and if the technology theoretically existed. Having a scientific basis for these inventions makes the universe that the story is set in seem more real and accessible. Audiences will have a hard time believing a story where the technology is so "advanced" that it can simply do whatever is convenient to the plot *cough*doctorwho*cough*. And although the story might be very interesting, it would be much more effective if there was some basis for this invention, even if it's only theoretical. It allows the universe of the show or movie to have rules that can stay consistent and have boundaries for the technology. Such as Baymax losing battery power, it just makes thing easier to believe and be immersed in.
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