Not everyone is convinced by the Minority Report-style future that will see us interact with machine via touch.
But the minority report will say that there are higher priorities for spending, at a time when welfare budgets are under considerable strain.
When the Iran-Contra probe produced its report in 1987, Cheney's staff helped write the dissenting minority report.
And of course, one of the most recognizable uses of a smart glove is to interact with a graphic interface as shown in the movie Minority Report.
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In the science fiction future of the film Minority Report, Stephen Spielberg displayed his vision of driverless automobiles: a thousand gleaming pods of metal and glass flowing in perfectly coordinated highway traffic.
McCurry did praise the Democrats' minority report, saying it was "a powerful document" that put the committee's work into context.
When an interactive ad shouts out to Tom Cruise's character in the 2002 film Minority Report: "John Anderton, you could use a Guinness!"
The interface of Minority Report was, in many ways, just as futuristic, but also more accessible -- something that we could see as an extension of existing technology rather than a shift to something completely different.
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Indeed, such a system wouldn't be out of place in the world of Minority Report, where iris scanners are everywhere and used not just for security, but to identify individuals in public places and deliver advertisements or messages tailored specifically for them.
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But, like the best science fiction, Minority Report didn't shy away from tackling big ideas, and it had as much to say about our present condition as it did about the future.
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Not only does it look like something out of Minority Report, but the SeaOrbiter is 100% sustainable.
To be sure, Minority Report wasn't the first movie to portray gesture interfaces as the future of human-computer interaction, but most prior examples were deeply entrenched in the traditional mindset of virtual reality and cyberspace common in the 1990s -- think Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic.
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Democrats will produce their own final minority report, ripping most of the conclusions of the Republican majority.
Dr Surendra Kumar, Chairman of the Overseas Doctors Association, said the report had highlighted concerns that were being raised by doctors treating ethnic minority patients.
But in a sharply worded minority report, Judge Johnnie Rawlinson objected to the idea that juries, rather than judges, should decide capital sentences.
He welcomes the latest report card because it highlights the progress of poor and minority students.
But House Minority Leader John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, saw the report in a different light.
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This ownership structure, the report contends, has slowed the implementation of reforms that would benefit minority shareholders.
Filibustering the conference report - to say nothing of the boast last month by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid that opponents had "killed the Patriot Act" - is not.
Through the wave of your hand, you can browse through TV shows and movies, in Minority Report-like fashion.
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"Strictly control and unify standards relating to the death penalty, and ensure that it only applies to a very small minority of criminals committing extremely serious crimes, " read one section of the supreme court's report.
In 1999, after the Macpherson report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the Labour government set police forces targets to boost ethnic minority officer numbers and although some achieved it many have found it difficult.
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