"The Minority Report" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, published in 1956. Set in a futuristic society, it explores the Precrime system, which uses three mutant "precogs" with psychic abilities to predict murders before they occur, enabling police to arrest would-be killers preemptively. The story centers on John Anderton, head of Precrime, who discovers his own name on a list of future criminals, predicted to murder a man he has never met. As he flees, Anderton learns of the "minority report"—a dissenting prophecy from one precog revealing an alternative future—raising profound questions about free will, determinism, and justice.
