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“The primary function of science fiction is to explore ideas and to entertain. It shouldn’t be considered a brief,” Foster tells me. He worries when he hears people in meetings say, “We should make the thing from Minority Report.” To him, it’s a lazy shortcut—an idea taken from a cinematic universe built for drama, not for pragmatic, human-centered utility. “They’re sort of misreading the function of that art form,” he says. “They’re just trying to make something happen because they’re excited by it, not necessarily because it’s better or more pragmatic or more useful.”
