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The Machine of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

Albert L. Shepherd V

What if someone had access to a mass-surveillance supercomputer that could predict not only acts of terror, but everyday violent crimes? Such is the premise of CBS’s Person of Interest,...

George MacDonald’s Princess

Albert L. Shepherd V

You see too deeply into things to be able to laugh nicely,” wrote fairy tale author and art critic John Ruskin to his friend, George MacDonald, in 1863. Ruskin...