think i've created a minority report

have you ever seen the movie minority report? if not, read no further: there will be spoilers. and yet the post is not about the movie.

anyway: in the minority report movie, a special police unit has been created to prevent murders to happen. for that, they rely on pre-cons, three individuals with a sort of psychic powers that allow them to foresee a homicide. so basically whevener the pre-cons foresee that someone is going to kill someone, the special unit stops it from happening, and arrest the potential murderers.

so far so good, but the problem starts when the pre-cons foresee a murder whose author is john anderton, the leader of the unit. the thing is, anderton doesn't know the guy he is supposed to kill, so he flees while trying to prove that he's innocent, and that the system he believed to be flawless has a flaw after all. knowing the prediction, he tried to find the guy who he was supposed to kill - and ends up killing him. so basically the pre-cons predicted something that could only happen if they predict it - if anderton had never known about the vision, he'd have never murdered anyone.

this to say that i think i've tied a similar knot somehow. i've... foreseen something (and no, i'm no psychic), and by letting everyone involved to know my guess, i made it happen. it's messy, i know. and while it doesn't show that i can predict the future, it shows how "vulnerable" the future is to our present actions.