So, obviously the title isn't referring to casting Tom Cruise in the lead role! Ha! But it seems that our focus on technology these days mimics many things from popular TV and movies like Star Trek and Minority Report. The piece that Minority Report got right was the method/practice of using iris/retinal scans to identify people.
I can imagine a great number of ways in which this technology could take care of some of our most troublesome problems at a national level. Imigration and homeland security being one of them. Think about it, if everywhere you went you had a billboard scanning your retina or iris to identify you you would have nowhere to run if you were a terrorist or illegal alien. No more need for driver's licenses just your eyes.
The Minority Report movie took the tech a little too far with it's "spider" scanners. It would be cool to see some sort of UAV with a scanner going around and snapping shots of peoples eyes on occasion. Talk about a deterrent to crime! Imagine if how streamlined our legal system would become. No more lies about where soemone was at the time of a crime. Just a log showing you in the library with a candlestick knocking Colonel Mustard to the floor! That is, of course, until Tom Cruise comes in and prevents the murder and hauls your butt off to jail for hating on veterans! : )
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