Comparing All The Troubles And Minority Report

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Currently, the world has no communities that have a utopian society. “Minority Report” and “All the Troubles” are two different stories, one a book and one a movie. These societies trying to achieve utopia through technology to achieve no crime, but they both face troubles and flaws in their systems. Multivac, highly advanced computer system that had grown to the size of D.C. was a computer that solved all the problems of a society by predicting percentages of outcomes in “All the Troubles”. “Multivac directed Earth’s economy and helped Earths science”(Pg.223) demonstrates how the computer was creating a utopian society. Several times within the story, Multivac demonstrates how it can fix problems and how it helps society. “It could direct …show more content…

In“Minority Report” pre-cogs are three mutated humans to pre visualize murders that are going to happen in the near future. Police would wire up their brains allowing them to see the near future. This had crime in D.C. almost at an absolute zero. Also, since the would be murders never actually murdered anyone, the government would put them in a virtual reality for eternity as a punishment. Pre-cogs would sleep and not be aware of the present, which made it easy to access data from their brains. In the “Minority Report” the police relied on technology to fight the crime. The police would use robotic spiders to search peoples homes without the risk of injuring or police officers. Also the police would use jet packs to fly around and get to difficult …show more content…

Since at the end of both of the stories, each of the societies had there systems fail and a dystopian society that the government was trying to avoid become a reality. To the outsiders or civilians the society seemed to be perfect and non corrupted which makes the reality a lot more sinister. Even though at the end of each story there was a dystopian society emerging, the chances of a fully corrupt society has a very small chance. It just means that society might have to go back to a more basic way of life. Lastly nobody should be punished for something that they haven't committed and a society based on simple laws and order would be much more

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