Soon after, Verhoeven ended the project, but not before unwittingly posing a topical question: in a 24/7 surveillance society, where omniscience isn't just God's thing, what should be private?
As long as nobody knows what the listeners cannot read, they have an aura of omniscience.
How this rock acquired omniscience and why its voice is exactly like Ms Sobel's remain unclear.
It was God's ubiquity, combined with his omniscience and his habit of delivering savage on-the-spot punishments for the slightest transgressions, that had Parry in such a bad way.
Telekinesis will be commonplace, with appliances controlled by brain scanners; microscopic sensors will continuously monitor cells for signs of danger, extending human life span; internet-enabled contact lenses will tag anything and anyone in sight, enabling omniscience on demand.
But this new approach could narrow down that margin to just five years or so.No doubt Dr Spence's work will disappoint some people most notably, those who take the meticulous design of the pyramids as evidence either of extraterrestrial intelligence, or of the omniscience of the ancients.
The company uses missile-tracking software to crunch the huge array of statistics that their moves provide.Such omniscience could make artificial athletes unbeatable if their hardware were up to scratch.
THE internet's omniscience is one of its most useful and transformative features [Citation needed].
DOCTORS often exude an air of omniscience, but in truth they are surprisingly ignorant.
It would enable him to refer them to his cabinet colleagues, ditching the fusty pretence of prime ministerial omniscience.
The resulting sense of "invisible omniscience" would, he hoped, encourage good behaviour.The Panopticon was never built, but the idea has endured.
