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"I identify with the weak person; this is one reason why my fictional protagonists are essentially antiheroes."
- Philip K. Dick

Minority Report Ads (Biometric Personalized Ads)  
  Advertisements that speak directly to the consumer in public settings.  

At this point in the Film, John Anderton (Tom Cruise) has been identified by the Precrime unit as a murder suspect. In his efforts to escape, he walks through a mall hoping to escape notice, and is ironically identified by targeted advertisements.


(John Anderton bombarded by personalized advertisements)

"...Lexus. The road you're on, John Anderton, is the one less traveled"

"John Anderton! You could use a Guiness right about now."

"Get away, John Anderton... Forget your troubles..."

Technovelgy from Minority Report (Movie), by Steven Spielberg.
Published by Dreamworks in 2002
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It is not clear how the advertising units identify the character; it appears to be done with a retinal or iris scan.


(Tom Cruise gets an eye scan in Minority Report)

Not content with ads that merely voice-over the name of the consumer, the ad shown below actually mouths the syllables of the name "John Anderton."


(Minority Report graphics personalization)

This is a great realization of Ray Bradbury's spot-wavex scrambler that allows Mrs. Montag to participate in the Family that appears on her parlor wall TVs (from his 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451).

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