The 2002 film Minority Report regularly appears in tech press articles asking whether it ‘predicted the future’. When such publications invoke the film as having ‘predicted the future’ or ‘come true’, what social and political claims are being made? How has Minority Report become a discursive tool for imagining, constructing, and criticizing sociotechnical worlds? In this paper, we evaluate the worldbuilding process and real-world trajectories of three technologies ‘from’ Minority Report, as refracted through the lens of tech journalism: gestural interfaces, targeted advertising, and predictive policing. We argue that science fiction does more than represent technologies; it participates in their social construction. Some technologies imagined in Minority Report operate as ‘diegetic prototypes’, and the journalistic witnessing public takes them up in complex ways, interpreting, misinterpreting, and remixing the technologies depicted in the film. We further argue that it is not only technologies that move between film and reality in this process, but entire sociotechnical imaginaries. We find that in tech beat interpretations of Minority Report, the interfaces between bodies and technologies reflect a Silicon Valley sociotechnical imaginary of disembodied cyborg subjects and deracialized surveillance that materially and discursively shapes how technologies depicted in the film are developed and received.

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Precog 愿景：用少数派报告的社会技术想象来预测未来


2002 年的电影《少数派报告》经常出现在科技媒体的文章中，询问它是否“预测了未来”。当此类出版物称这部电影“预测了未来”或“成真”时，他们提出了什么社会和政治主张？ 《少数派报告》如何成为想象、构建和批评社会技术世界的话语工具？在本文中，我们通过科技新闻的视角，评估了《少数派报告》中三种技术的世界构建过程和现实世界轨迹：手势界面、定向广告和预测性警务。我们认为科幻小说不仅仅代表技术；它还代表了技术。它参与了他们的社会建设。 《少数派报告》中想象的一些技术作为“叙事原型”运作，新闻目击公众以复杂的方式接受它们，解释、误解和重新混合电影中描述的技术。我们进一步认为，在这个过程中，在电影和现实之间移动的不仅是技术，还有整个社会技术想象。我们发现，在对《少数派报告》的技术节拍解读中，身体和技术之间的界面反映了硅谷的社会技术想象，即无实体的机器人主体和去种族化的监视，这些想象从实质上和话语上塑造了电影中描述的技术的开发和接受方式。