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It wasn't that prescient; public-location commercial facial recognition system had been deployed for several years, and companies were, IIRC, already actively promoting customer tracking and advertising applications at the time.


It's worth noting the 2002 movie Minority Report is based on a shorty story of the same name published by Philip K. Dick in 1956.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minority_Report


I was attributing this bit to the film...I suspect the digital signage scene wasn't from the short story.


Ah, right, yep good point. I've read the story but my memory of the film overwhelms my memory of the story. I believe you are correct.


Yeah, the short story was very little like the film.


It was rare, bulky, expensive, slow, and highly inaccurate at the time.

http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0102/0102fac...




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