The past week has been a milestone in technological advancement. The FBI announced the completion of its new facial recognition technology. Arizona State University researchers developed the runner's jetpack. And Audi unleashed driverless cars in California. Just 12 years after Minority Report, the world is closer to Steven Spielberg's vision of 2054 now than anyone would've anticipated.

Much of the sci-fi technology imagined in 2002 is a reality in 2014. Let's count the ways:

Facial Recognition

Remember when having your phone tapped seemed invasive?

The FBI's new facial recognition service, NGI, allows law enforcement to scan your face or retina so that a computer can determine if it ranks in the top 50 mugs associated with a crime. Results come with 85-percent certainty, so rest easy-ish.

The "FBI plans to have 52 million photos in its NGI face recognition database by next year," according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which obtained specifics on NGI earlier this year. "One of our biggest concerns about NGI has been the fact that it will include non-criminal as well as criminal face images. We now know that FBI projects that by 2015, the database will include 4.3 million images taken for non-criminal purposes."

To be clear, NGI is not only used by the FBI but also "more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies and other authorized criminal justice partners 24 hours a day, 365 days a year," according to the FBI's press release.

Big Brother is watching you in high definition now — your back, profile, tattoos, scars, family, and friends.

Personalized Advertising

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In 2014, this is known as personalized retargeting or remarketing. Our modern equivalent is not quite as obnoxious as hearing your name shouted by John Anderton's (Tom Cruise) inescapable holograms, but it's not far from it.

"The reality is these technologies are not coming in 2054; the technologies are here now," said Whaleshark Media's senior VP in an advertising conference last year.

Personalized retargeting makes up most of the Internet ads you see. Cookies allow companies to track your Internet behavior so that ads can suit your interests. This is why the space that might show an American Airlines ad on a frequent flyer's browser will show duck calls on an avid hunter's browser.

Predictive Crime Fighting

"Precogs are pattern-recognition filters. That's all." —John Anderton

In 2005, the Memphis Police Department developed a prognostic policing method "using analytics to fight crime before it happens."

Faced with a growing crime rate and a shrinking budget, Memphis's Director of Police Services Larry Godwin was desperate for a new approach. Traditional police work just couldn't keep pace with modern crimes any longer, so he turned to innovation for a solution. He shared crime data with a criminology professor to devise a statistical means of targeting where and how crime is likely to happen.

After developing a new pilot program, the department tested it for three days, and the results were astounding. The first time MPD experimented with the new approach, they preemptively intercepted crime hot spots and "made some 70 arrests in just the first two hours — a number usually made on an average weekend — and went on to make a total of 1,200." After seeing the program's success, the Memphis PD teamed with IBM to create Blue C.R.U.S.H. (Crime Reduction Utilizing Statistical History).

Since the program's inception, the Memphis PD has seen a 30 percent decrease in overall crime, and police across the world have adopted the technology.

Gesture-Based User Interface

When John Anderton moved his hands to and fro to manipulate digital images, it was a total mindfk in 2002. In 2014, it's child's play, literally. The original Nintendo Wii came out in 2006 and introduced the world to games that respond to user gestures using a handheld controller. When the novelty wore off, it became apparent that the original Wii is little more than postmillennial Duck Hunt.

In 2010 Microsoft launched Kinect, a gesture-based UI that recognizes and responds to users' limbs without need for a controller or even gloves like John Anderton's.

Today, this same technology has expanded from the game world to the office and emergency rooms. Modern surgeons trust the hands-free tech to expedite life-and-death decisions, just like in Anderton did.

Driverless Cars

Google was the first to take the driverless car seriously, and the concept is here to stay. Four states have already passed legislation to permit the hands-free vehicles: Nevada, Florida, California, and Michigan. Last week, Audi received the first permit to let autonomous cars loose in California.

Voice-Automated Homes

John Anderton told his home to play video on the "wall screen" so that he could get stoned on futuristic air duster and wallow in self-pity to saccharine family flicks.

You too can join this techno-pity party with the help of voice-responsive home technology. Companies such as CastleOS, VoicePod, and the poorly named HAL allow you to activate locks, lights, air conditioning, and electronics with the power of your voice.

However, good luck trying to open those pod bay doors.

Robotic Insects

In 2012, Harvard lab master Rob Wood gave flight to the world's smallest microdrone, RoboBee. The tiny robot has wings that flap independently and mimic the maneuvers of a housefly. Unlike the larger Nano Hummingbird, InstantEye, and dragonfly drones, the RoboBee is the size of a penny.

However, scientists are still developing an onboard power source to fuel RoboBee's furious flapping. Using microfabrication, Wood aims "to shrink onboard batteries, and he's collaborating with researchers at Harvard, the University of Washington, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pursue novel batteries, micro fuel cells, and wireless power transfer," reports Popular Science. "He estimates he is only one or two years away from his first autonomous-power demonstration."

Jetpacks

The Martin Jetpack was named one of Time's Top 50 Inventions for 2010, but it will not be available to consumers for some time. It's bulky as hell, sounds like a go-cart on steroids, and will come with a price tag nearing $150,000, but it is a reality.

For those with slimmer wallets and less patience, 30-minute rentals of water jetpacks will run you around $250 at select locations across the country.

Or you can give powered paragliding a go.

Unfortunately (fortunately), the world is still waiting on a few terrifying Minority Report predictions:

Gravity Guns

Sick Sticks

Overpopulated Prisons

Oh wait, never mind on that last one.