"The Minority Report" is a 1956 science fiction
short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in Fantastic Universe. The story
is about a future society where murders are prevented through the efforts of
three mutants who can see the future. Paradoxes and alternate realities are
created by the precognition of crimes when the chief of police intercepts a
precognition that he is about to murder a man he has never met. The story also
touches upon the dangers of a powerful post-war military during peacetime. Like
many stories dealing with knowledge of future events, "The Minority
Report" questions the existence of free will. In 2002, the story was
adapted into a film directed by Steven Spielberg.
