Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by NeilFraser 6016 days ago
The central plot of "All the Troubles of the World" is that Multivac was predicting who was going to murder whom. In terms of crime prediction the closest Google has come is mashing up maps and crime stats to show which areas of town are problematic. Unlike Multivac, Google has no interest in being a police officer. Whereas Multivac was built by the government, Google was built by a corporation.