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"My feeling is that the chance of our surviving into the twenty-first century as working civilization is less than fifty percent but greater than zero."
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At this point in the film, John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is trying to escape from his fellow officers. He boards mass transportation, hoping to lose himself in the crowd. As he enters the train, he is scanned and identified.
Within moments, his position is reported at Precrime headquarters.
As we look over the shoulder of a passenger on the train, we can see John Anderton rubbing his eyes. Slowly the newspaper comes into focus.
![]() (Minority Report E-Paper Newspaper) As we watch, the headlines on the USA TODAY newspaper change from "Molecular nano-technology?" and "Medical nanodevice triumphs!" to "Breaking News! Precrime Hunts its Own!"
![]() (Paper-thin E-Paper Newspaper changes content) This was presaged in Neal Stephenson's mediatron from his 1995 novel The Diamond Age. Comment/Join this discussion ( 8 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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