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The Machine of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
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
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...