The Minority Report
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The Minority Report
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
|---|---|
| Published | 1956 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Dick’s 1956 novelette in which a police division called Precrime arrests people for murders three precognitives have foreseen but nobody has yet committed — until the division’s own head is named, and the forecasts turn out not always to agree. The cleanest short introduction to the recurring Dick problem of a prediction system whose outputs become the thing being predicted. |
Where I heard about it
- a16z’s infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in the Sci-fi “must reads” section (S tier), under their Philip K. Dick entry, which says every one of his roughly 150 novels and stories carries “at least one genuinely new idea” and gives “catching crime before it happens” as the first example — this is that story.
About this edition
First published in the magazine Fantastic Universe; the dissenting forecast is the minority report of the title.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from, where six Dick works are named.
- a16z — the firm whose infrastructure team curates it.
- Philip K. Dick — the author.
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — the other Dick work on the list that became a defining film adaptation.
- Historical Futurism — the research lens.
- Science Fiction — the genre page.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.