At age 17, every citizen receives a single vision of their future, which is used to sort them into social roles, but one person's vision shows them committing murder, creating a crisis of determinism vs. free will.
Models pre-crime scenarios: what if we could predict behavior and punish it in advance? Directly relevant to predictive policing, social credit scoring, and the ethics of acting on probabilistic futures.
Domains: Time Travel and Temporal MechanicsGovernance and Political SystemsEthics and Philosophy of Technology
Scenario Types: Warning / Self-preventing prophecyEthical dilemma
Outcomes: DystopianCautionary
Tags: predictive-sortingmandatory-visionpre-crimedeterminism