How Minority Report Predicted the Future With Surprising Accuracy

While we don’t yet know what impact the new Minority Report TV series will have on society, there’s little doubt that the original 2002 film had a huge impact on technology. A number of future technological advances displayed in Minority Report are now a reality in some form or another, and it’s tough to say whether that’s because of the film’s use of scientists in predicting what would come to pass, or because of today’s scientists being influenced...

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70 Years of Korean War

It was the day after the death blow to Nagasaki, 70 years ago, that the victors of the most awesomest war ever chose to create a division of Korea along the 38th parallel — a line that would be revered as a holy thing when North Korean troops later came across it, but dismissed as “imaginary” when U.S. troops crossed it heading north. The Korean war was to World War II what the anthrax letters were to 9-11 — without it sanity had a real chance;...

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"Orwellian" FBI Says Citizens Should Have No Secrets That The Government Can't Access

The police and surveillance state predicted in the forward-looking 1940s classic “1984” by George Orwell, has slowly, but steadily, come to fruition. However, The latest sign of this stealth takeover of civil rights and freedom was epitomized in recent Senate testimony by FBI Director James Comey, who voiced his objections to civilian use of encryption to protect personal data – information the government has no automatic right to obtain. As reported...

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