From what I understand, the minority report interface was actually designed by a company called Oblong, check out their Mezzanine system, the guy from Oblong said that is what they’ve done with that movie concept.
A lot of the things we would have called people out for as being too blue sky, or not rooted in reality are existing, or beginning to exist. I think that the power of those blue sky ideas is that it gives someone who actually knows how to program things a goal to shoot for. They see this stuff and think that’s cool, and I might actually know how to figure that out, so I’ll give it a shot.
Like the thing in Iron Man, where he takes control of the monitors by taking a picture of them, that’s real, I saw a girl present that at a conference this summer, she made it happen.