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Minority Report: Predicting Criminal Intent (From chapter four of Films from the Future)

Andrew Maynard

There’s something quite enticing about the idea of predicting how people will behave in a given situation. It’s what lies beneath personality profiling and theories of preferred team roles. But it also extends to trying to predict when people will behave badly, and taking steps to prevent this......

The “Science” of Predicting Bad Behavior

Andrew Maynard

Excerpted from a early draft of The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future; inspired by the movie Minority Report.  In March 2017, the British newspaper The Guardian ran a web-story with the headline “Brain scans can spot criminals, scientists say”.[1] Unlike in Minority Report, the scanning was carried...