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In the series Person of Interest, there's a scene where you can see racks of servers which allows to track everyone in a city (New York?). When I first saw the

In the series Person of Interest, there's a scene where you can see racks of servers which allows to track everyone in a city (New York?). When I first saw the scene I said: "This amount of servers is not remotely enough to pull something like this". When I think of the scene now: "These amount of servers can do much more than the scene portrays". I mean, most of the tech presented in the series is almost standard operations procedure via mundane equipment now. Scary.

whiskey-one 9mo ago
Subsequently in PoI we see two imperfect super-intelligent AIs let loose in the real world fight each other for domination and their objectives. For me, it’s a question of when, not if this happens in real life.
- ocdtrekkie 9mo ago
  Person of Interest is really good. Unfortunately I learned too much about the lead's IRL behavior, and it's on my shelf of shows I'll enjoy once the involved parties aren't collecting royalties anymore. It absolutely takes people on a police procedural that drags viewers unwittingly into watching a science fiction show, and I'm totally here for all of it.
  - slyall 9mo ago
    I see it as a textbook approach of a show that built up the characters with "number of the week" episodes and then integrated the world-building and big arcs gradually. Very hard to do and less common these days with shorter series. oh and the actor will be getting royalties until he dies so you are are effectively waiting for that. Maybe get the episodes in a way that doesn't give him money.
    - ocdtrekkie 9mo ago
      > you are are effectively waiting for that That's essentially what I was saying. I sort of hope when people are dead I can enjoy their performance more fondly even if I know they sucked before. > Maybe get the episodes in a way that doesn't give him money. I've owned the whole series on Blu-ray for a number of years. It really is just one of those things that feels tainted, at least for now. :/
twostorytower 9mo ago
I believe they also pull this off with a fleet of PS3s, at one point.

whiskey-one 9mo ago

Subsequently in PoI we see two imperfect super-intelligent AIs let loose in the real world fight each other for domination and their objectives. For me, it’s a question of when, not if this happens in real life.

ocdtrekkie 9mo ago
Person of Interest is really good. Unfortunately I learned too much about the lead's IRL behavior, and it's on my shelf of shows I'll enjoy once the involved parties aren't collecting royalties anymore. It absolutely takes people on a police procedural that drags viewers unwittingly into watching a science fiction show, and I'm totally here for all of it.
- slyall 9mo ago
  I see it as a textbook approach of a show that built up the characters with "number of the week" episodes and then integrated the world-building and big arcs gradually. Very hard to do and less common these days with shorter series. oh and the actor will be getting royalties until he dies so you are are effectively waiting for that. Maybe get the episodes in a way that doesn't give him money.
  - ocdtrekkie 9mo ago
    > you are are effectively waiting for that That's essentially what I was saying. I sort of hope when people are dead I can enjoy their performance more fondly even if I know they sucked before. > Maybe get the episodes in a way that doesn't give him money. I've owned the whole series on Blu-ray for a number of years. It really is just one of those things that feels tainted, at least for now. :/

twostorytower 9mo ago

I believe they also pull this off with a fleet of PS3s, at one point.