Person Of Interest Research Paper

With all the computer hacking Mat executed in Overdrive I could not help but think about the television show, Person of Interest. While much of the book is about cars, if you focus on the finer details of the story you can see how everything the teenagers managed to pull off was due to the help of computers. Without Mat shutting off security cameras and alarm systems, the mission would be a total bust.
Person of Interest is about a machine created by a rich software engineer, that has the ability to find out about terror acts before they occur. The machine monitors the whole world by seeing into every cell phone, security camera, and email. The computer will point out an individual of certain interest that will end up being involved in the

violence. The flaw with the system is that the device is not able to decipher if the person of interest will be the offender in the act or the victim.
If I worked for the government and had this supercomputer giving me possibly life-saving information, I would be quite overwhelmed by it and a little fearful. One wrong move and you could let dozens or even hundreds of people get killed or injured. I honestly would not be able to deal with that amount of guilt and stress. But the opposite would be extremely fulfilling. If you managed to figure out who the perpetrator was, you’d be saving tons of people.
All in all, I definitely would not be the best choice to handle the machine and would be the first to crack under pressure. I also have the worst luck when it comes to choosing between one thing or another, so if it were up to me to decide who was a terrorist and who was a victim, I’d be wrong just about every time. Though I do think the machine would help the world and prevent many deaths, there would just need to be a more qualified person to read its findings.