Minority Report - Personal Advertising in the Future

So... something like this? [VIDEO] It's scary just how much Minority Report has predicted has come true. It's almost like the movie gave advertisers a playbook.

Minority Report's personal advertising is getting closer and closer: [VIDEO] And they won't even need retinal scanners. Facial recognition will probably be good enough.

For those that haven't seen it, here's the scene where all the digital signage knows who John Anderton is: [VIDEO] The movie was released in 2002, so fairly prescient.

Minority Report does a decent job depicting several of these topics. Self driving cars[1], intrusive ads[2], and "no crime". [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO] Not bad for a 2002 film adaptation of a 1956 short story.

Imagine if cameras could read your retinas and identify you like in Minority Report ( [VIDEO] ). Though we're not there yet, facial recognition tech is almost ready for something similar.

There’s a scene in Minority Report of a mall and it’s basically this. The billboards scan you and then target you directly as you go by. [VIDEO]

The Hollywood movie Minority Report has a scene where an advertising display personalizes the ad by your name. [VIDEO]

And then able to follow you and know your present location whenever you go by a camera. Minority Personalized Advertising [VIDEO]