The high-tech computer touchscreens you see in the movies are not as futuristic as you think!

“In the 2002 thriller Minority Report, detective John Anderton, (played by Tom Cruise) uses gloved hands to manipulate images on three-dimensional charts. The depiction of futuristic technology was set in 2054.

The future arrived sooner than expected. The features that let Cruise’s character quickly sift through crime data represent a new breed of gesture-based, touch-sensitive technologies that are becoming a reality in 2007