In the late 90s, when faced with the task of turning Philip K. Dick's The Minority Report into a feature film, director Steven Spielberg assembled a crack team of forward-thinking minds to envision the technology-saturated world to come. The resulting film was an action movie, through and through. But much of what its various collaborators came up with quickly became hauntingly prophetic. From gesture-based computing to police drones to the overwhelming proliferation of personalized advertising, Spielberg's film, in many ways, describes a future that seems to be rapidly closing in on us.
On the occasion of the film's 10th anniversary, Wired recently spoke to a dozen of Spielberg's former soothsayers about how these and other concepts...
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