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Throwback Thursday: The future of wildfire management — The Minority Report?

For Throwback Thursday, we’re reprising an article we published January 31, 2013:

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Minority Report
A scene from the movie Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is affiliated with the Department of Homeland Security, must have seen the movie Minority Report many times. The video below which been around for a couple of years teases how the lab is developing future work environments for the emergency management community called Precision Information Environments (or PIEs). PIEs will hopefully provide tailored access to information and decision support capabilities in a system that supports the multiple user roles, contexts, and phases of emergency management, planning, and response.

Do you think the windshield of a fire vehicle will ever be able to instantly transform into a huge computer monitor?

Thanks go out to Jim

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