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>>pseudo+(OP)
This doesn't seem to make sense. By more accurately predicting where crimes will occur, the police departments can reduce the amount of patrols needed.

>>koheri+9e
I urge you to read Minority Report, or watch the movie.

>>uoaei+sf
> I urge you to read Minority Report, or watch the movie.

This is fiction.

>>chriss+Zj
Fiction is a really powerful tool that can be used to warn us of societal dangers while sparing us actually needing to live through them.

It is fiction, so it isn't a history book and there are plenty of assumptions on how things will work. However, in good fiction, those assumptions are plausible and highlight a future that may happen.

Dismissing fiction is just like having a stock manager that dismisses quarterly reports since they don't definitively tell you how the company will be doing - they just tell you how it has been doing. Prediction and imagination are not flawless tools, but they are helpful to plan for the future. (Which is amusing to say in the light of the book being discussed)

>>munk-a+Hy
Many science fiction writers would tell you, and have publicly stated in the past, that they don't predict the future and that's not their job.

Just by chance, you can go back and find stories from the past that seem prophetic now, but not going forward.

>>perl4e+QE
I don't think any sci-fi writers (that aren't dishonest) would claim their work is prophetic, but good sci-fi is taking how things are and changing just one thing and trying to describe how that might look as accurately as you can imagine.

The details are total BS, but sci-fi is absolutely a good vector for allegories and societal insights.