Spielberg on Privacy, Minority Report

Staring at Nothing writes "In this ABC News story famed Hollywood director Steven Spielberg voices some concerns over the current state of privacy and paranoia in a post-9/11 world. Some of Spielberg's recent movies, like AI and Minority Report have brought us haunting views of the future, but the present may be just as scary. He mentions software being developed to monitor "abnormal behavior" and concerns about originality being misconstrued as dangerous behavior." The story has some minor plot spoilers about Minority Report.

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Re:Think this would work?

[Kwikymart]

There are only about two schools of thought when it comes to problems such as this. The first is to say that if such a thing could actually happen, then you wouldn't be able to change your future no matter what because you are destined to do it. No matter how much you tried not to or whatever, you would still do it. It happens in your future and that is a definite thing, so changing it would be impossible.

The second school of thought would be that if you did do something like what you mentioned, every conceivable alternative would be played out. This ties in with the idea that there are an infinite number of timelines out there.

I hate it when shows like ST: Voyager does one of their infamous time travel shows. They are always full of blatant holes in logic. Then, for some reason, the show always ends with Janeway ranting on about how she hates time travel paradoxes. Blah, I hate that show.