The film gave us two futures. We rebuilt the one that was easy to demo.The film cautioned against predictive systems and pre-crime, and the we turned it into a screensaver.For two decades, Minority Report has been shorthand for the future of interaction. Show the film to a designer and one image surfaces: Tom Cruise in a black glove, sweeping translucent panels through the air like a conductor.Teams chased it, vendors sold against it, and every few years someone demos a rig and invokes the film.We treated a piece of science fiction as a product roadmap.But the gloves were set dressing, not the subject. Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film is about a police division that arrests people for murders they have not yet committed, on the word of a predictive system no defendant is allowed to question.The interface was the spectacle. The prediction engine was the real argument.Call the gap between...