The Spinning Machinery
The first thing Witwer sees when he enters the door of analytical wing were great banks of equipment: “the data receptors and the computing mechanisms that studied and restructured the incoming material. And beyond the machinery sat the three precogs, almost lost to view in the maze of wiring”. This image shows us the great human power and in the same time their boundless infamy – they are strong and smart enough to create an extremely powerful machine with unique functions but at the time these people are so mean and violent that they are ready to use other people to fulfill their ambitions.
The minority and the majority reports
Each of the three precogs give their own variant of future. Two reports that have the greatest overlap are generated into the majority report which is considered the right one. The third one is the minority report which is not taken into account usually: “The solution, based on a careful study of statistical method, is to utilize a third computer to check the results of first two. In this manner a so-called majority report is obtained. It can be assumed with fair probability that the agreement of two out of three computers indicates which of the alternative results is accurate.” This image gives us a picture of a parallel universe where even the idea of crime is the crime itself and people are dependent on machines which run the world and can’t do nothing with it.
Precrime
Precrime is “the post-crime punitive system”, founded by John Anderton, identifies the potential perpetrator and send him to the detention camp before he commit a crime. The system works with the help of three mutants, known as precogs, who have precognitive abilities and predict who has an intention to commit the crime and what kind of crime it will be. This image gives us a picture of the world, where even one’s thoughts and intentions which may never be realized are the reason for imprisonment. In that world the potential perpetrator has no right to justify himself – there are no advocates and courts – the person is regarded as guilty even when he hasn’t done anything wrong. That is the world where the system is omnipotent.
