AV club reviews Person Of Interest: “Root Path”
One is always tempted to think of the plot as a metaphor. The Machine is the good potential of social organization and Open Source sharing. Its nemesis is Samaritan which will be used for social control and ultimately serving itself. Surveillance state. Patent trolls. Rent-seeking.
Vigilance may have good points about drone strikes, the surveillance state and legal black hole of enemy combatants, i.e. the absence of democratic checks and balances, but as Shaw says it's the way they go about it.
The Butlerian Jihad.
But it does seem like a "hinge moment" in history. Open Source versus the One Percent.
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