We just discovered a new and wonderful website. New to us anyway. It’s called buddy TV, and what got us going was this awesome interview with Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman:
PERSON OF INTEREST Interview: When Fiction Becomes Reality
by Carla Day
When Edward Snowden leaked classified information about the extent of NSA data gathering, it was easy to draw connections to the television show, Person of Interest. On the series, “The Machine” collects data about everything from phone calls, video feeds, internet traffic, and on and on. It was designed to analyze the data and protect the nation from the worst threats.
While the information that has come out so far about the NSA snooping isn’t nearly as invasive as that on the fictional series, it opens the possibility that such a machine really exists.