Dick’s 1956 novella The Minority Report, in which three prophetic human “precogs” are hooked up to complicated machinery that reads their minds; they’re also yoked to a brutally efficient police ...

Set in the year 2054, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report looks clammy and bleached-out. The oppressiveness, of course, is intentional, but is it necessary? High-concept science-fiction escapades ...