Net Gods Fantasia

Bianka 2022-11-06 17:16:17

Leaving aside the aura of the protagonist who can never be beaten to death and save all kinds of dangers, let's talk about the Mahine.

With such a computer with supercomputing capabilities, natural language recognition, image and sound analysis, network attack and cracking capabilities, how can the huge energy consumption be guaranteed? How to maintain the environmental monitoring system in the computer room? How is data stored and backed up? How to fix network and hardware failures?

The NB computer also has to run in the real world. Specifically, it is inseparable from a huge support system in the real world, not a black box after a genius scientist can put it there and everything will be fine. However, there is no mention of this in the play, so from the screenwriter's point of view, the machine is not so much a machine with AI as it is a god of the online world. Such a setting makes this play only a fantasy series. Well, just look happy, don't take it too seriously.

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Person of Interest quotes

  • John Reese: [When asked who he is] A concerned third party.

  • [Opening narration, Season 5]

    Harold Finch: You are being watched. The government has a secret system...

    Harold Finch: [voice warping] secret system

    John Greer: A system you asked for to keep y-y-you sssafe.

    [visuals glitch POVs between that of Samaritan and of the Machine]

    Harold Finch: A Machine that spies on you every hour of every day.

    John Greer: You've granted it the power to see everything, to index, order, and control the lives of ordinary people.

    Harold Finch: The government considers these people irrelevant. We don't.

    John Greer: But to it, you are *all* irrelevant. Victim or perpetrator, if you stand in its way...

    Harold Finch: We'll find you.