<P> "The Minority Report" is a 1956 science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in Fantastic Universe . In a future society, three mutants foresee all crime before it occurs . Plugged into a great machine, these "precogs" allow the Precrime Division to arrest suspects prior to any infliction of public harm . When the head of Precrime, John A. Anderton, is accused of murdering Leopold Kaplan, a man whom he has never met, Anderton is convinced a great conspiracy is afoot . His new assistant, Ed Witwer, must have corrupted the system in an attempt to oust him from the position . On the run and suspicious of even his wife, Anderton searches for the minority report to clear his name, as only two out of the three precogs predicted his guilt . Through a series of betrayals and changing alliances, Anderton discovers that the three predictions are rather a progression of alternate realities . To maintain Precrime's authority, Anderton consciously decides to kill Kaplan, thereby affirming the validity of the second majority report . Anderton is thus exiled with his wife to life on a frontier colony and replaced by Witwer as head of Precrime . The story ends with Anderton's advice to his successor: "Better keep your eyes open . It might happen to you at any time ." </P> <P> The story reflects many of Philip K. Dick's personal Cold War anxieties, particularly questioning the relationship between authoritarianism and individual autonomy . Like many stories dealing with knowledge of future events, "The Minority Report" questions the existence of free will . </P>

In the story how does anderton learn about the possibility of a minority report for his future