PC Predicts Felony – Precognition?
I’ve just had the thought of precognition on my mind tonight, because I was watching the horr(or/ible) movie Mothman Prophecies. It got me thinking about the precogs from Minority Report. Now it seems that is not far from the future, as a computer recently predicted a crime before it happened in NYC (using just statistics I’m sure). (interesting how both movies came out in 2002)
Also tonight, we got into a discussion about what makes movies good and bad, and decided there has to be some substance or meaning that the audience gets out of it – like any work of art. In this regard, I highly recommend American Beauty, or The Sixth Sense (from M. Night Shyamalan as we were talking about him tonight).
August 2nd, 2005 at 7:47 am
I read that article but the only problem i had with it was the fact that they predicted a crime would happen within a 4 hour timespan. Im no genius but i could probably predict that a crime will happen in any area area..Especially in new york. The problem i see with this is that there will need to be a constant rate of time in order for them to accurately predict where a crime will occur which means for every bad guy they catch another comes along. Hmm…maybe they should be preventing good guys from becoming bad rather than letting them become bad and then busting them..my 2 cents