All the Troubles of the World and The Minority Report are two short stories that predict the future to prevent crime and wrongdoings in their two societies. The two stories, while very different, have many similarities. Together, they both raised many ideas or questions like, “Is having technology that predicts the future going to benefit the society?” and “How much harm is too much harm for the benefit of the rest of society?” The Minority Report and All the Troubles of the World make use of advanced technology that predict the future, which cause character similarities and similar problems in the two stories.
The main commonality between All the Troubles of the World and The Minority Report are that they both can predict the future. They …show more content…
Anderton and Witwer are similar to Gulliman and Othman because they are in charge of large corporations that control and go through all of the reports. They basically have all of the control in their societies. Anderton and Ben are also quite similar because they both seem to rely and believe strongly in their methods of predicting crime. Ben doesn’t question Multivac at all, and believes that whatever Multivac answers is going to be the right answer. Anderton, since he is the creator of the Precrime Agency, believes that his system is always correct and has no faults. I believe that in both of those situations, the fact that both stories have systems that predict the future, which since it is the future, they will never know if the predictions were correct or not. As quoted by Kaplan in The Minority Report, “Accused not of crimes they (people) have committed, but of crimes they will commit. It is asserted that these men, if allowed to remain free, will at some future time commit felonies. But there can be no valid knowledge about future.” Thinking that their systems had no flaws caused Anderton and Ben to become very reliant and confident in their
The main commonality between All the Troubles of the World and The Minority Report are that they both can predict the future. They …show more content…
Anderton and Witwer are similar to Gulliman and Othman because they are in charge of large corporations that control and go through all of the reports. They basically have all of the control in their societies. Anderton and Ben are also quite similar because they both seem to rely and believe strongly in their methods of predicting crime. Ben doesn’t question Multivac at all, and believes that whatever Multivac answers is going to be the right answer. Anderton, since he is the creator of the Precrime Agency, believes that his system is always correct and has no faults. I believe that in both of those situations, the fact that both stories have systems that predict the future, which since it is the future, they will never know if the predictions were correct or not. As quoted by Kaplan in The Minority Report, “Accused not of crimes they (people) have committed, but of crimes they will commit. It is asserted that these men, if allowed to remain free, will at some future time commit felonies. But there can be no valid knowledge about future.” Thinking that their systems had no flaws caused Anderton and Ben to become very reliant and confident in their