In heaven, everyone shares an omniscient personal assistant named Janet.
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Except the internet isn't omniscient, and it certainly isn't altruistic.
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When the omniscient God has spoken, we can only obey.
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Even if it were omniscient, the board is not omnipotent.
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They are not omniscient and they need to be challenged.
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Over the course of three seasons, Janet morphs from an omniscient
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I should shift it all to the omniscient point of view.
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The story of your life doesn't come with an omniscient narrator.
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But his method is more omniscient eye than the activist bullhorn.
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Bran is the three-eyed raven; omniscient and lacking in human concerns.
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Of course, we, the omniscient audience of the future, know what's coming.
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My basic character was buttoned-up, omniscient, wise, loyal, indomitable ... A Terminator.
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The result is an omniscient, omnipresent, voyeur's eye view of the world.
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"But you're going to need this omniscient understanding of availability" at businesses.
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Sellers get things wrong as often as buyers do; they're not omniscient.
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So you become both omniscient, but also a manipulator of existing situations.
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But I don't worship an all-powerful, all-controlling omnipotent, omniscient being.
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Mao, like God, could be credibly omniscient only by being unpredictably seen.
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In other words, does being omniscient rob Doctor Manhattan of free will?
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And luckily for us, omniscient Scarlet editor Jacqueline (Melora Hardin) thinks so too.
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It's the AI that seems spookily accurate at certain times or strangely omniscient.
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We knew Ghostface is weirdly strong, but now, he/she is also omniscient.
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Then there's a faceless omniscient machine that's pulling the strings behind-the-scenes.
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The omniscient narrator is conscious of everything and isn't afraid to say so.
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So how do we reconcile an omnipotent, omniscient God with evil and suffering?
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Our semi-omniscient narrator is perhaps better imagined as a young tour guide.
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Resolutely monotheistic, later Christians would declare that their God was eternal and omniscient.
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Conveniently for Game of Thrones' plot, though, Bran doesn't quite seem to be omniscient.
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She reveals that she knows where the final pages of the omniscient notebook are.
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Economists are by no means omniscient about economic policy—and frequently prove as much.
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He twice undergoes a spiritual ascension during which he meets an omniscient higher being.
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That short doesn't include the digitized, omniscient lines, and instead has a ghastly vibe.
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In Madden, you're omniscient and can think you're in control of all of it.
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Palacio unspools his characters' lives with the type of omniscient authority befitting an epic.
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For all intents and purposes, the space library can be omniscient, eternal and omnipresent.
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So really, that's the magic of the decentralized/omniscient narrator for me so far.
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Female omniscient narrators are rare, but there are some striking examples from this cycle.
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That's because our Paleolithic brains aren't built for omniscient awareness of the world's suffering.
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The movie gleefully demolishes the cliché of a great artist as a brooding, omniscient eminence.
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The haetae, known also from Chinese folklore as the xiezhi, is an omniscient mythical beast.
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Bran's powers are so omniscient that he can seemingly call for help in his vision.
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More importantly, Flagg's third-person omniscient narration explicitly spells out their love for each other.
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So Google created a similar smart speaker powered by the omniscient brains of Google search.
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This time the Mad Hatter was an omniscient narrator of the song's music-biz blues.
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For now, Saunders's awareness of her own mortality has turned her into an omniscient eye.
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"It allows the teacher to be what I like to call 'retroactively omniscient,' " Mediratta said.
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But I prefer the other interpretation of this scene, which is that Louise is omniscient.
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Famously, both The Wire and Treme were about American cities, observed from an almost omniscient perspective.
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As Dear White People's omniscient narrator explains, he's not the first intrepid journalist to do so.
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So, the Gargoyle King isn't some malevolent, omniscient Big Bad — he's just another Hiram Lodge puppet.
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All the while, the omniscient Maitreya bears witness, smiling beatifically through the spectacle of human misery.
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Instead you understand yourself to be some enormous, omniscient observer not meant to influence the plot.
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Believers in an omniscient God tend to assume that nothing can truly be hidden, including doubt.
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Maybe it has something to do with the illusion of omniscient invisibility that the internet confers.
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He is, it seems, somewhere offscreen, an omniscient narrator, felt maybe, but not seen or heard.
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"The young and silly can become great tyrants," our omniscient narrator observes, and so Isabella does.
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Eh, I think a lot of people could get behind the idea of Beyoncé being omniscient.
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This divine perspective is the impersonal gaze of an omniscient creator that stays out of human affairs.
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Mr Petzold also employs a semi-omniscient narrator whose identity is revealed only later in the film.
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Isabelle Reed is revealed by flashbacks and photographs, objects and fantasies, omniscient narration and Rashomon-like subjectivity.
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The account is practically omniscient, benefiting from decades of historical research, thousands of photographs, and countless anecdotes.
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The pig's owner replied that pigs are intelligent, more intelligent than dogs, but they are not omniscient.
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The chapters feature an omniscient narrator, but focus largely on the perspectives of Mussolini and his collaborators.
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Her anxiety was structurally related to her ambition; her vigilance resembled the omniscient uncertainty of immigrant parents.
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It's 2017 and the Astros won the World Series and made Ben Reiter's 2014 cover story look omniscient.
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Zusak plays into this with his nearly omniscient narrator, who is telling the story at some future date.
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The way third-person omniscient voice works for each of them is different, and relates to their personalities.
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One character is a cheerful omniscient being that lives in a void and is capable of materialising anything.
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In other words, getting elected does not make an individual omniscient nor does human self-interest just disappear.
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In Lauren Groff's "Fates and Furies," the omniscient narrator interjects in bracketed asides that recall a Greek chorus.
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In fact, Hoover was not omniscient, but the next best thing: a librarian with an extensive card catalog.
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A novel has the benefit of omniscient viewpoints and backstory that leave no character's — no woman's — complexity unplumbed.
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I admit that 18 years later I still weep recalling how omniscient he seemed on his last day.
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In Arefaine's classes, Afewerki was described as a modest, nearly omniscient man, focussed on his people's well-being.
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At the same time, despite the dire circumstances, the omniscient narrator's voice, buoyant yet sympathetic, propels things along.
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In AI's other realms, it hasn't actually proven omniscient or objective, usually in ways that hurt not-white guys.
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So what kind of omniscient genius could possibly have predicted this insane, left-field power swap, intricacies and all?
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Just to jump in there and see the world through their eyes, and not be so meta or omniscient.
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He's omniscient, can teleport, transmute anything, create life, destroy life, change his size, and release tremendous amounts of energy.
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People are guided by an omniscient force, represented by glowing lines that extend from their heads to the heavens.
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"Okay, so we have our main characters," Kyle says, acting as the omniscient narrator in a very winking manner.
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Even Hillary Clinton spent a large majority of her airtime on ads where a man is the omniscient narrator.
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The C.B.O. is chock-full of committed and talented public servants, but the agency is neither omniscient nor infallible.
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In this omniscient point-value version, there's no benefit or harm to any kind of ethnicity, gender, age, whatever.
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Probably. Will there be an omniscient digital assistant that will guide passengers through the experience of riding in the car?
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He's wise, avuncular, omniscient, and so beloved by Stephen Colbert that he played a key role in Colbert Report's finale.
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That's where Smith discovered the skill of omniscient narration by watching customers through the one-way glass in the office.
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Ms. Bakewell's approach is enticing and unusual: She is not an omniscient author acting as critic, biographer or tour guide.
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Perhaps the return of omniscient narrators reflects the sense we all have, as internet users, of access to unlimited knowledge.
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One aspect he does share with his predecessor: He's nowhere near omniscient, though he'd like people to think he is.
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Then he makes a far simpler and more radical argument than any advanced by Apple: Perhaps law enforcement shouldn't be omniscient.
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Connecting them all is a mysterious, omniscient spirit, who pushes them toward each other and their destination with gusts of wind.
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He just encountered the creepy grown-up omniscient version of the kid he threw out of a window eight seasons ago.
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It reinforces a framing where Google search's ideal final state is a godlike, omniscient benefactor, not just a well-designed product.
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It's one more tiny step in indoctrinating children into feeling comfortable with constantly being watched by an omniscient authoritarian power (Santa).
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We're actually watching one mom who's clearly becoming more and more uncomfortable with her ex-boyfriend's omniscient presence in her life.
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His eye was omniscient and his roaring Sarf Lahndahn (South London) voice was more like a dog's bark than anything human.
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"Hiroshima" is told entirely in an unadorned, omniscient third-person voice, which is why it's often called the first nonfiction novel.
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This is only her second Saturday grid, and it's possible that omniscient Deb times her vacations to maximize her Weintraub columns.
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While they argue their eternal cases in front of an omniscient judge (Maya Rudolph), Michael explains himself to his infernal supervisor.
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At a pinch, I can even take the preëmptive puffery of the script, whereby lesser characters keep lauding his omniscient genius.
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You'll recall that, last season, Bran made the executive decision to not listen to the omniscient Three-Eye's Raven's foreboding warnings.
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And that's because he's not an emotional human anymore – he's the Three-Eyed Raven rendered omniscient via greensight, he dreams the future.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of viewing Mr. Mueller as a savior, an omniscient narrator who will soon reveal all.
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From the perspective of an omniscient social planner, it would be better if both B and C were half their current size.
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But it also creates a notion that Mother is omnipresent and omniscient, constantly aware of her son and what he's up to.
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It's a saying that invokes logic, not love, but the idea that this technology is omniscient is comforting, even if it's untrue.
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Jaime and the creepy omniscient child he pushed off a tower mid-coitus all the way back in the very first episode!
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It's excellent advice for lawyers and omniscient stoners in fantasy series: Don't ask a question you don't already know the answer to.
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Parts of the story are told by a rabbi named Nachman, providing a more subjective perspective alongside the book's omniscient realist narrator.
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But then nobody thinks to ask everyone's favorite omniscient little brother to offer details on the Army of the Dead's exact location.
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The narrator in Ng's novel is an omniscient one, the sort that was common in fiction throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.
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It is a compendium of saints: the vaunted patriarch, the taciturn cowboy, the errant knight, reluctant hero, gentle giant and omniscient father.
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But they often are the glue for a system like this so that a judge does not have to be oracular or omniscient.
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" While the terror watch list is certainly Orwellian, it's not omniscient—not everyone who is on it is on it "for a reason.
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However, it's dropped early on, and instead, the narrator becomes just omniscient and all-knowing, creating a sense of distance from the characters.
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The game's answer is curiously the omniscient and ever-judgmental eye of Santa Claus: Robotic police hover the universe, punishing those who misbehave.
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On the other hand, we have already constructed an omniscient, omnipotent, deathless A.I. that holds all of our fates in its power: God.
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Then there's Dr. Walker, the local physician and a morphine addict (a pitch-perfect Robert Joy), who serves as a semi-omniscient narrator.
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Maazel's omniscient narrator performs a more conventional kind of literary mind reading, revealing the thoughts of these characters and detailing their various motives.
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Here, Chace is chatty as can be, very comfortable in his skin, and he slips in and out of being the omniscient narrator.
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So is Louise omniscient, or does she just receive flashes, some of which she remembers and some of which she only remembers dully?
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The lighting focuses on them, and an omniscient, male voice begins to read aloud what sound like passages from the King James Bible.
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He asks about Bartosz, tells him that the apocalypse has to happen, and instructs him to find the missing pages from the omniscient notebook.
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Equally notable, by the way, is Michael Gambon as the embodiment of another classic Coen device: the unseen, omniscient (one might say godly) narrator.
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By denying the reality of modern presidential government (lots of delegation), parties and candidates feed the destructive myth of the omniscient, Green Lantern president.
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A gentle, omniscient narrator shares the story of Roz, a friendly robot who inexplicably finds herself shipwrecked on an island full of wild animals.
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" As omniscient marital observer, Cohen reassures us that "it never happened again — not in my presence and not, I would guess, anywhere else, either.
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Mr. Esmail could have given us the usual omniscient action-movie P.O.V., crosscutting to the best view of the carnage at any given moment.
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This Clinton ad, which was the second-most aired, has a female omniscient narrator while talking about the wage gap between men and women.
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Screenwriters talk about trying to get into the heads of their characters, but two of your most important characters here were effectively omniscient aliens.
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But Popper thought that change was only possible through experimentation and piecemeal policy, not utopian dreams and large-scale schemes executed by an omniscient elite.
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Its omniscient narrator seems like a reporter armed with a healthy heaping of critical race theory, American musical history and performance studies, but no body.
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" Or this omniscient swerve in Nell Zink's novel "Mislaid": "He was tempted to take the gun, but was unsure whether it might not be loaded.
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But if you listen closely, you might notice that the perspective has radically shifted, away from the book's omniscient narrator and toward the man speaking.
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How will we deal with A.I. that is not alien or omniscient but just a few steps ahead of us, like a good tennis partner?
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There's very little about the making of the documentary itself in "Spettacolo," which assumes the point of view of the unobtrusive, not-quite omniscient witness.
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Was there ever a time when Americans believed their elected officials to be benevolent and omnipotent and their journalists to be objective and omniscient beings?
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In the end, Chace morphs back into the omniscient narrator to close things out, reminding us what's at the root of this whole mess: money.
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" Later in the same review, Mr. McGrath described Mr. Trevor's style: "His voice, wise and omniscient, sometimes sounds like the ancient voice of storytelling itself.
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The plug-in is billed as a "writing assistant," but I mostly used it as a spell-checker, a task at which it proved nearly omniscient.
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In the meantime, other apps such as Apple's Find My Friends, Snapchat's Snap Maps, and the borderline omniscient Life 360 all got in on the action.
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Shilts wrote And the Band Played On with an omniscient narrator voice—creating the inner monologues of the people he wrote about from his own imagination.
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The Minds are so advanced as to be near-omniscient, capable of waging wars, managing production, and operating a functional utopian society without any human input.
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But the show was already more omniscient than the limited perspectives of the books, and it's only gotten more so as it's left the books behind.
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Waze has sought to curb these reports, but in so doing, it has come across less as omniscient than unthinking and defensive — and above all, corporate.
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For most of the book the writers take an omniscient Woodwardian tone, staying careful and balanced and not cluttering up every sentence with newspaper-style sourcing.
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It begins with an omniscient description of aides in unfamiliar surroundings, a president watching TV in his bathrobe and efforts to redo the Oval Office playbook.
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Perhaps it was her keener-than-usual awareness of how stuff fits into your life, or her previous experiences dealing with less-than-communicative omniscient beings.
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Humans is a straightforward social-issues drama, one that takes a semi-omniscient view of an alternate world right on the cusp of everything changing forever.
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That's especially true when said stories feature figures like the Witness, who need to effectively be omniscient in order to set up their universe-spanning plans.
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It's a show in which a teenage girl became a Machiavellian super genius because she lived in an adrenalized state of hyperreality that made her omniscient.
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Where Adieux positioned Davidson as a kind of omniscient, detached commentator, Working Class Woman draws lines between club culture, Davidson's music, and her own mental health.
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But it also means that the episode's largely omniscient directorial point of view becomes a hindrance to truly making Jassim's point of view the episode's center.
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Bran, far from keeping up a poker face, takes this opportunity to lay his entire hand on the table and reveal to Littlefinger that he's omniscient now.
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However, it might be fair to say that his conceit requires a clearer buy-in, something to justify the omniscient narration, the direct address to Mrs. Haven.
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It seems that Amazon—the omniscient online marketplace already responsible for gifting us pizza drones and human-free food shops—has sensed our collective yearning for comfort.
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The company is named after an omniscient orb from the Lord of the Rings novels allowing its users to look into the past, and into the future.
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Through omniscient vignettes we see the Afghans conspiring to wound him, Barnes's mother informed of his injuries, and the rounds of surgery during which he is unconscious.
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"Bull" is prototypical network prime-time chum: Each self-contained episode revolves around a single legal case; the protagonist is an omniscient, infallible, borderline unethical white man.
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But the experience with the ACA has shown they're not omniscient, and I believe there are sound reasons to disagree with their analysis in this particular case.
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And, like a Brontë sister in a box at the opera, Perry observes the drama from an omniscient perch, examining her characters as if through a lorgnette.
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"It was hard to understand, but the Consistorial Court of Discipline was on the same side as the gentle sisters of Godstow Priory," explains Pullman's omniscient narrator.
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"Brightness Falls," like a nineteenth-century novel, is told from the perspective of an omniscient narrator; its humor is understated, derived from dry observation and clever dialogue.
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We first see her in Victorian regalia, perched like a marble-cast hero on a monument, as she sweeps the audience with eyes that feel unnervingly omniscient.
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Later that night, she heads to a "shit gig" at cabaret club to put a jolt into career, but the apparently-omniscient Harry forces management to replace her.
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D'Arcy Carden plays the omniscient Janet on The Good Place, and there's one thing she knows for sure in real life, too: tampon innovation is getting borderline ridiculous.
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Interviews are lit seemingly from a single bulb, as if talking to a mafia informant, and ominous music pulses in the background, creating an omniscient feeling of dread.
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This Silent Hill let's play is sort of like a spinning jewel on the Home Shopping Network, with each facet talked through and revealed by the omniscient narrator.
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They are increasingly omniscient: no longer do advertisers know just general things about you—a worldly professional, say, with superb taste in journalism—but they target you, specifically.
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This novel is an utterly serious and wildly comic test of the strange idea we take for granted in reading prose fiction—the pretense of the omniscient narrator.
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I walked into the restaurant, where High—a big man in a sweater vest, with a mottled complexion and an omniscient smirk—was sitting at a round table.
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And, conversely, in a world where our movements are tracked, where our web searches leave cookie crumbs, and where privacy is increasingly compromised, omniscient narrators resonate with readers.
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On the shows, the music functions as a kind of omniscient narrator, giving (or purporting to give) clues about characters' thoughts, and conjuring poignancy out of mundane interactions.
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HAL 250, the seemingly omniscient computer in "22001: A Space Odyssey," was the film's most expressive and emotional figure, and made a lasting impression on our collective imagination.
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Like Katharine Boo — who synthesized hours of research into a cinematic account of slum life in "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" — Flock writes about her subjects with omniscient authority.
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And to help give this convoluted tale of one of the world's most famous kidnappings some semblance of a narrative bow, Fletcher Chace returns as our omniscient narrator.
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SORM pales in comparison with China's "Sharp Eyes" initiative, which aims to be a fully omniscient system integrating artificial intelligence and data input from video and online surveillance.
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"I think a lot of political writing is written from this high-perch, omniscient view that it's just not accessible, and it's disempowering at times," Duca told me.
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Limbaugh was confronted by a caller who told him it was time that the "all-knowing, all-seeing Rushbo, the omniscient one" endorse the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
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He watches everything that transpires in the little town of Dogville and offers what seems like omniscient commentary — but really he's covering up the true horrors happening there.
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But, Recode's Jason Del Ray writes how amidst the buzz there were no attempts to reassure consumers the potential privacy policy risks that come with the new omniscient Alexa.
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This is Wray's form of time travel: narration from a seemingly omniscient point of view, an invisible observer watching from the corner of the room, 20 feet from history.
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The cheeky video, which follows Mosier as he trains, features an omniscient narrator asking the athlete a series of questions related to the worries of trans people in sports.
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In the age of Google Maps, the spirit of adventure can be sidelined by blindly following the seemingly omniscient blue line on the glowing screens in front of us.
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A young reporter named Lincoln Steffens — who went on to become a muckraking journalist and author — experienced Byrnes's omniscient abilities firsthand, after a pickpocket absconded with his weekly pay.
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Eleanor has taken on the role of the neighborhood's divine architect, though the cosmic suburb is actually being held together by the near-omniscient artificial being Janet (D'Arcy Carden).
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An exclusion of the human that relies entirely on omniscient human enforcers makes the reserves oddly artificial: they are absolutely natural in what they contain, absolutely unnatural in their conception.
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If the sport could have an omniscient narrator, a single person to read the book-on-tape version of its long, fascinating, and often frustrating history, he would be it.
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Goodwood is a special gathering because it works in the opposite direction: the geeky dad, now mostly derided as being out of touch, becomes an omniscient guide of wondrous discovery.
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The machinery of omniscient narration can feel as clunky in my hands as, I suspect, it does in Zadie's, for the simple reason that we inhabit the same literary moment.
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At a time when "terror"—and the propaganda that surrounded it—seemed an omniscient force and resulted in shared, suffocating anxiety and fear, Newgrounds took aim and made it funny.
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A local — and possibly political — solution lacks the imaginary tidiness of America swooping in, omniscient and omnipotent, with an explosive military intervention in which Washington bombs it all nice again.
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One thing I started noticing was the use of omniscient narrators — voices of people who never appear onscreen but make grand, sweeping generalizations with an authoritative voice, like this one.
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Whatever the sequel turns out to be, at least we'll get a couple omniscient, Fincher-y oners while a sea of zombie hordes feast on innocent bystanders, so there's that.
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"Blast: May 1996," the omniscient opening sequence that describes the bombing, is followed by "Victims: May 1996" and then "Terrorists: May 1996," where we see the planning of the attack.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. Because she loves her fans uniquely and individually, like any omniscient and benevolent being might, Beyoncé has sent us all a Christmas card.
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In addition, mental health among Arizona youth has worsened significantly in recent years—a side effect of cyber-bullying and the omniscient reach of social media in teens' lives, she says.
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The device of the omniscient fetus is one that McEwan takes up with a comic flair more darkly mischievous than McEwan fans, accustomed to his usually melancholic-meditative tone, might expect.
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So rather than labeling yourself as an atheist, it might help to think of yourself as someone with an affirmative belief system that doesn't happen to include an unseen omniscient force.
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As Michael explains in a passionate monologue to a wary omniscient judge (Maya Rudolph) named Gen, though he expected them to torture each other, they instead made each other better people.
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I mentioned in a recent piece how easily I fall into reading ruts when I feel pressured to read what's trendy, either by friends or some omniscient embodiment of the literary community.
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She's a guest of the government, whose interests extend no further than the project of "excavating, proving and entrenching Chinese rootedness in Africa," according to the narrator, who is omniscient but unknowable.
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The real-time urgency of "Love" is undergirded by the present tense and made incandescent by Orstavik's seemingly effortless omniscient perspective, sometimes switching between Jon's mind and Vibeke's from sentence to sentence.
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It's this vast and complex network of moral affiliations — and the nuanced omniscient voice that Ng employs to navigate it — that make this novel even more ambitious and accomplished than her debut.
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It also underlines the difficulty in maintaining Xi's image -- carefully cultivated by state media -- as an almost omniscient ruler who oversees, and is aware of everything that is happening in the country.
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This omniscient approach, and the vast scope of the subject, lends her tale a novelistic sweep, but it can also flatten out her characters, who tend to be swallowed up by the story.
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I had nothing concrete lined up, so reasoned that it might be time to click on one of those omniscient Facebook advertisements offering cash in exchange for taking part in a scientific study.
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The show takes an omniscient perspective and fills in gaps by reducing Cunanan's motivations to the simplest answers, and its gay characters — Cunanan's victims — into sometimes touching but unoriginal stories about the closet.
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Drift is appealing because of his flaws: he isn't an omniscient figure for the crew: he's just making his way through the universe to make a living in the way he knows best.
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The capabilities are staggering, according to the guide: All of this information is aggregated and synthesized in a way that gives law enforcement nearly omniscient knowledge over any suspect they decide to surveil.
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Mr Duterte would have the world believe that the Philippines' corrupt and ineffective police have suddenly become omniscient—able to tell innocence from guilt and decide who may live and who should die.
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Benjamin Saltzman, an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago, thinks that a helpful way to understand contemporary surveillance is to compare it to a medieval conception of an omniscient God.
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If you believe in the kind of future envisioned by Google, Amazon and Apple, search and interaction will probably be governed by a persistent, semi-omniscient entity that sits inside our living rooms.
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"Today, the manager is not omniscient and not omnipotent," said Sandy Alderson, the Mets' general manager, who has watched the position change since his days as an Oakland Athletics executive in the 1980s.
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" For a moment, it's as if Russo has forgotten his own earlier advice: "If playing God scares you," he declares, fully confident of his omniscient powers as a novelist, "there are other professions.
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Through an omniscient point of view, Gundar-Goshen handles her characters' interior lives gracefully, especially in a section about an octogenarian impersonating her dead friend as she concocts Holocaust testimonials for live audiences.
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You might be reminded of Wes Anderson, but his is a formal playfulness, hinting at a cool omniscient game, whereas Mills's approach feels looser and more self-interrupting, like a conversation between friends.
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You're not omniscient and you're not a fortune-teller, so be open to the possibility that life might have some surprises in store, because what you see is not always what you get.
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Rather, an omniscient narrator of brilliant psychological insight was telling me all sides of Anna's story — giving me access not only to Anna's mind, but to the minds of the people around her.
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For all his will to control, Kubrick is not an omniscient presence in his films, for total control is impossible and a film-maker can never control what the audience makes of it, anyway.
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Sadly, there was no omniscient matriarchy in this place but it was bright and clean and smelled good—but if they don't have a grandma rolling the joints here will they be as delicious?
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A wide-open goal post for accusations of triteness and affectation, Marc Webb's "The Only Living Boy in New York" dares us to score the second we hear Jeff Bridges's cynical, omniscient voice-over.
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He devotes ample space both to the ways that quantitative findings can lead decision-makers astray, and to the risk that the nearly omniscient owners of such data sets may find ways to abuse them.
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It's possible Light can be seen as a dark version of Oz's The Wizard (Frank Morgan) through the young man's creation of Kira, a persona people the world over begin believing is an omniscient god.
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There are plenty of lessons to be learned from MXC's rise and fall, yet The Experimental City isn't didactic with these failures (there's no omniscient narrator foretelling doom or drawing lines to present bureaucratic woes).
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Over the course of three seasons, Janet, played brilliantly by D'Arcy Carden, morphs from an omniscient afterlife Siri delivering jalapeno poppers to the dead to a fully realized being with complex feelings and personal relationships.
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Shot inside inoffensively carpeted rooms, underneath omniscient lights, or outdoors—only God knows where—the subjects of Joanna Grochowska's photographs are prone, posed less like living beings than the grotesque, plastic dolls of Hans Bellmer.
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If the music were part of an omniscient soundtrack, rather than the secret audio experience of two stressed parents trying to maintain a marriage amidst an alien invasion, the effect would have been completely different.
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Still, most of the good choices are offset by a questionable one, including the device of having the whole movie framed by an omniscient narrator (Jesse Plemons) whose role only becomes clear near the end.
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Thereafter the collection gets less plausible but more intriguing and immersive, as in Jeffrey Ford's "What Is," an omniscient-narrated tale of stubborn, damaged people fighting a hopeless battle for survival in drought-destroyed Oklahoma.
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There's already been a spate of tragic incidents involving suicides and Facebook Live, the company's live broadcasting platform, and AI would be much quicker and omniscient in flagging that sensitive content for removal or censorship.
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Each of Martin's chapters is told through a different character's perspective, allowing the reader to follow the story not from an omniscient fairy-tale narrator but in a voice that feels true to the time.
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Through sketches written from more than a dozen perspectives, from an omniscient third person to the family members themselves to tangential figures — an antagonistic neighbor, a chatty doctor — we piece together a kind of narrative.
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"What's the thing to thing, Jeeves, that's thinged with those thingummies?" the narrator asks at one point — to which the omniscient Jeeves responds, of course, that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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We've got a fairy-tale-style omniscient narrator who notes the exact years, months and days since certain events; oddball aunts who raised a bookish niece; and police investigations that are more whimsical than gory.
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Scenes that could otherwise only be rendered by an omniscient narrator, or by alternating the characters' perspectives, are punctuated with directions like Cut, Blackout, Wipe, so René can tell us whatever we need to know.
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Alex: Doctor Manhattan is basically a god, and when we think about gods or God, it's often an immortal being that's omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient — an all-powerful figure who's present everywhere and knows everything.
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After two years of building, the Photos team says it sees a day when the venerable smartphone camera roll is obsolete — replaced by Photos, an omniscient, ubiquitous guide to the most important images in your life.
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It was invigorating to view the events through someone's eyes besides Harry's; J.K. Rowling's books occasionally depart to the omniscient narrator, or the points of view of bystanders like Frank Bryce and the Muggle Prime Minister.
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There were brief moments when I felt like an omniscient general, sure, but more often I was an overworked sheepdog, running in circles to try and keep my flock of tanks form bumbling into an ambush.
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I chatted with her about the craziest week of her online life, the relationship between fan fiction and her IRL career, and what it's like to be the omniscient author of the novel we call life.
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But throughout his 16 years in power, whether as president or prime minister, Mr. Putin has presented an image of an omniscient and omnipresent leader interested in and capable of addressing his country's most microscopic concerns.
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There's also a structural problem: The story is bloated, a hundred pages too long, and told through an omniscient narrator until a first-person voice (a man who had a boyhood crush on Marian) pops up.
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But while TV, print, and billboards offer almost no way of attributing sales to ad views, and most online ads can only track online sales that came straight from ad clicks, Facebook is much more omniscient.
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Just as the original movie featured an omniscient narrator setting up the story in its opening minutes, "Age of Resistance" begins with Sigourney Weaver telling the audience about the planet of Thra and its magical crystal.
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Nearly every character delivers a speech that wouldn't feel out of place on "Rachel Maddow" or "Tucker Carlson," and occasionally an omniscient narrator interrupts to explain the broader implications of, for example, the 2008 housing crisis.
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But the voice of their omniscient narrator, who will occasionally pull back from the action to make larger comments about our ideas of morality and "doing good," is much more mature and mournful, marked by regret.
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Well, by our commentary, we mean the utterances of our inner omniscient Carrie Bradshaw we carry in our tiny dessert taxidermy handbags to help get us through the broken heels and hearts of this thing called life.
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" The story's vast and complex network of moral affiliations — and the nuanced omniscient voice that Ng employs to navigate it — make this novel even more ambitious and accomplished than her 2014 debut, "Everything I Never Told You.
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There are two ways we can experience these aggressions: We can witness them from the omniscient perspective, seeing them happen as a third-party observer; or, we can experience them from the point of view of Hannah herself.
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Here, McLane asks us to watch her as she unfurls onto the page, moving ever so quickly as the clouds in the sky, changing shape and composition in the blink of an eye, and always already omniscient throughout.
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" Following a series of more-or-less dizzying works, including the coolly omniscient "Superego," a mirrored scale model of the rotating sign outside the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police, the show concludes with the new video piece "Orrery.
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A man possessed of such an omniscient, omnidirectional love would certainly have partaken in the physical act, and he would've made no distinctions among lovers for their superficial qualities (certainly not for something so fickle and arbitrary as gender).
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The conversation is heartbreaking to watch, as an omniscient viewer knows how this will end just a season later: with Darlene electing to move back home with her mother to raise her newborn daughter, giving up her dreams of city life.
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Sarah Jessica Parker — America's sweetheart, New York City's mascot, relatable queen of cold-hearted romantic comedies, human vessel of Sex and the City's omniscient tulle-loving narrator, mother of three, and guiding light to all — is an excellent Instagram artist.
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The goose's assigned tasks are directed by some omniscient guiding presence, but that doesn't really matter; they exist simply to add a semblance of structure to what is otherwise an open playground for the goose to cause a good-natured racket.
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A peculiar stylistic device adds to the book's penumbral chill: the omniscient narrator's penchant for isolating words within a sentence, whether quarantining them inside quotation marks, sequestering them within parentheses, setting them off by dashes or distinguishing them by font.
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Apparently, Iverson's interests include: What's really interesting about the wide-ranging, eclectic, offbeat posts on the Answer's Facebook page is that apart from updates that revolve around Allen Iverson, noteworthy human being, they all come from the omniscient website, providr.com.
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It struck me after I'd wrapped up my visits with Anduril that, aside from the drug smugglers they helped intercept on the border, I had not heard the founders mention the people who might get caught in their omniscient zone.
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This inconsistency is not explored, nor is it apparent why, if she is merely Bee some years hence, she is also an omniscient narrator, confiding to the audience and acting as a kind of wizard, rewinding time with a remote control.
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"A lot of these giant tech companies, they actually run two businesses," she said: They run a platform that connects buyers and sellers, and they compete on that platform as vendors themselves—while collecting near-omniscient data on their rivals.
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Interestingly, it is the small child—the picture of innocence, perhaps still young and naive enough to not feel beaten down by the world and whatever omniscient being that may or may not be pulling the strings—who turns to prayer.
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When creators are just trying to get through an episode as quickly as possible, most scenes will be shot from a dry, omniscient point of view — observing the events, but relying heavily on the script for emotional commentary and catharsis.
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The video, West told Vanity Fair, was intended to be "a comment on fame," as the title suggests: A night vision camera, positioned as an omniscient bystander, panned and leered over the vulnerable, assembled bodies of the most famous people in popular culture.
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The theme of "only one came back" is not uncommon in the canon of war stories, but here the lone survivor is too severely injured to tell his story, so Ackerman hands the narration to an omniscient member of the dead platoon.
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SCHULMAN: Employers cannot be expected to be omniscient, but they can be expected to continue to do what CDC, OSHA, WHO, and state and local governments advise in terms of hygiene and sanitation, sending sick employees home, and being flexible with policies.
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Billboard's charts are not omniscient, but they do adjudicate history, and one story that will be told by the 2019 year-end Hot 100 is of the sun beginning to set on the cultural relevance of a certain generation of pop star.
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But I tend to think of it more as being allowed to play a kind of semi-omniscient god, hovering above these characters and getting to see everything they do onscreen, being dared to cast judgment on them — and in doing so, on ourselves. ●
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Google is combining voice search and Google Now, its predictive service that shows users information, before they actually go searching for it, in the hopes of creating an omniscient assistant, ready to step in and fulfill any request, including those you haven't yet thought about.
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Although the setting and key characters have changed, the common thread throughout has been the collateral damage the war on drugs has inflicted across decades -- an endless cycle of violence amid enforcement efforts that, as the omniscient narration notes, has claimed a half million lives.
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Society seems to consist of only the youthful survivors of a calamity referred to as "the accident": One, Claire, lives in a doorless pod where the Computer, an omniscient artificial intelligence, completely controls her existence; another, Aurora, is part of an apparently homeless cohort outdoors.
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Burns's irreverent, omniscient narrator moves from the combusting mind of a gun-shop owner named Tom to various members of the homicidal Doe family, whose first names begin with an absurd fill-in-the-blank blur of J's, ranging from Jetty to Jotty to JanineJuliaJoshuatine.
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The "Life Scripts" were omniscient psychological narratives of hopeless persons blindly repeating damaging behaviors in relationships with the wrong people, to whom they are attracted for terrible reasons, often having to do with damage done to them as children by their clueless, also damaged parents.
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Similar shortcuts exist throughout the film, whether in Willem Dafoe's dreadful omniscient narration ("Celeste's loss of innocence curiously mirrored that of the nation," he says at one point) or the pretentious title cards that precede each act of the film, such as "Genesis" and "Re-Genesis".
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I think the most powerful exhibitions are not ones that present the hidden, omniscient voice of the curator as, "This is the way it is, and this is the way to think about this," but to bring people deeper into the kinds of questions that arise.
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Since then each of Townsend's albums, no matter what the quality, have been honest snapshots of where he was at the time; after quitting Strapping and spending time with his newborn child, he wrote a Meshuggah-esque opera about aliens and coffee called Ziltoid the Omniscient.
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Though the omniscient viewpoint dilutes Check's story, that sacrifice is in service to understanding the variety of people in the Nation, where the designation of "full blood" is determined by whether someone lives according to the old ways, not by who their parents and grandparents were.
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The novel contains no direct dialogue, only reported speech; scenes are remembered by the narrator, not invented by an omniscient author, which means that the writing doesn't have to involve itself in those feats of startup mimesis that form the grammar, and gamble, of most novels.
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And as the omniscient narrator reminded viewers of Michael's promise to love Jane till the day he died, the show quietly flashed forward three years, revealing a Jane with shorter hair and a 4-and-a-half-year-old Mateo, as they get ready for a mysterious wedding.
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"Duck Dynasty's Korie Robertson Snaps Amazing Pic at Kanye's 'Sunday Service'" isn't a news item that anyone on this planet could've ever predicted, not as a joke, not during the most acid-driven mid-'10s Cards Against Humanity game, not even by the fully omniscient writers of ''The Simpsons.
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The author Michael Lewis once described syndication desks as an "omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous presence" on trading floors, but banks are working on new digital platforms to overhaul a process that has long consisted of phone calls, emails, instant messaging services and unwieldy spreadsheets to collect and collate the orders.
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It ignores that the last decade and a half of U.S. foreign policy has been anything but tidy; that America is neither omniscient nor omnipotent; and that our military interventionism is too often reckless and counterproductive, creating more power vacuums and civilian suffering than it does anything resembling peace.
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When I think of the term internet of things (IOT), I think of Kevin Spacey as the Jeeves-like computer system GERTY from the 2009 movie Moon: an all-in-one computer that controls my whole house, meaning it can be both an omniscient butler and a best friend.
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While there may be some true superstars in the world of customer service who know the product they are representing backwards and forwards, chances are that the vast majority of people helping customers are not omniscient gurus, and are just human like the people complaining or asking questions.
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A track Kino spins one evening — the Coleman Hawkins version of "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" — prompts the omniscient narrator to note, with what might strike the reader as too much omniscience about jazz history, that what Kino enjoyed most was the bass solo of Major Holley.
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Image: Silicon CaliIf there is a God and he is indeed omniscient, it is also true that he foresaw the human race's ability to create a great many things that would change the world, improve the overall quality of life here on Earth, and maybe even one day move beyond it.
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While the ironclad contract prevents me from officially naming the book series outright, I will say I spent a lot of time wrangling characters named Blair, Serena, and Dan, and even more time trying to get just the right combination of sophistication and snark into the voice of the omniscient narrator.
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If there is a character whose point of view we seem intended to share, it is Anna; but you, the reader, old or young, must filter your thoughts through the lens of the omniscient narrator, and it is easy to end up feeling protective of Anna rather than empathizing with her.
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Though Rick is the show's omniscient guru, it's Morty who puts it best, when he tries to explain to his sister that he and Rick managed to destroy their entire universe with a botched love potion and had to hide out in hers because "her" Rick and Morty had just died.
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" Written words, Thamus concluded, "give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things but will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
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When you can see the faces, that is—Malick often cuts people off at the neck, shows them shoulder to torso or waist to ankle, the camera inhabiting an eccentric viewpoint that rarely belongs to any identifiable character and yet is pointedly subjective, never that of a Godlike, omniscient narrator.
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More than 200 pages into the novel, the narrative shifts abruptly when Milo's son, Hans, who has inherited his father's mathematical gifts, as well as his addictive and obsessive tendencies, takes over the story and reveals that he has been the quasi-omniscient narrator describing his father's early triumphs and tragic downfall.
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You can find dozens of stories in r/nosleep about other monsters who are barely differentiated from this archetype of an amorphous, omniscient, scary dude with unclear motives — see Lollipop Man, The Man in the Overcoat, The Fire Man, The Mango Man, The Ice Cream Man, and The Skinny Man, just for starters.
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The story follows contestants of a dystopian game show also called "HIT TV." It's instigated by a disembodied mouth with a molasses-sweet cadence broadcasting through a pirated TV signal to offer "points" to players who kill her targets, á la the omniscient radio DJ and her lackeys in 1979's The Warriors.
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She's the show's omniscient narrator, like a zoned-out Carrie Bradshaw, and a lot of time is not too profitably spent on her progress in rehab; her drug use, and the reasons for it, are so far the show's least interesting thread, and Zendaya is correspondingly flat in the scenes devoted to it.
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I think of him as being something like the Angel of History, as imagined by the philosopher Walter Benjamin, an omniscient being who looks back to the human disasters of the past and sees them repeating themselves in the present and future, which is exactly what's happening in this country right now.
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So I can't speak so much because we are not omniscient so we don't see everything we do know that more cases are being opened that implicate trade secret theft with a nexus to China and that may be because the victims are more attentive to what's happening which is a good thing.
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To my mind, the flash-forward scenes of Louise with her daughter Hannah — in which she makes it more or less clear that she knows everything that's going to happen to her daughter — suggest that once Louise is sufficiently talented at speaking Heptapod, she becomes functionally omniscient about the scope of her own life.
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"Satisfied" is told from the point of view of an Angelica who seems significantly older than the one who's giving a toast at Eliza and Hamilton's wedding, as if an omniscient Angelica, on her death bed, dropped in from out of nowhere to offer her younger self a quick look at the moment when it all turned wrong.
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At full wattage, the show viciously smashes the world only to see it restored to its old, troubled state in some unsettling way, by hopping into a dimension where our heroes' doppelgängers have just died in a grisly accident, or having nigh-omniscient house pets abandon their plans to enslave humanity for fear of becoming too much like us.
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Mourinho bridges the divide between the old conception of what a manager should be — an omniscient potentate, his fingerprints on every aspect of day-to-day life at a club, not answerable to a sporting director or a recruitment committee — and the more modern vision of what one should look like: handsome, charismatic, all brooding intensity.
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At 66, I am maybe too old for a transformative travel experience, but thinking about where I have been (Greenland, Iceland, Kauai, 20 miles back into my home valley), I was reminded that if I got to pick one of those Godly powers — omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent — I would certainly pick the last one, because every place has been full of amazement and pleasure.
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In Europe in the medieval period the eye symbol was often surrounded by a triangle that symbolized the Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit and represented the omniscient eye of God keeping watch on humanity, and was later taken up by the Freemasons as a reflection of their belief in this all-seeing power who saw and judged everything.
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The basic idea is that pretty much everyone in positions of power in the government (except President Donald Trump, of course) and the media is a pedophile and child-eating cannibal, and that "Q," the group's omniscient and anonymous leader, is part of a resistance group within the deep state who is working to bring all of these criminals to justice, or Gitmo.
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My interpretation — which is bolstered by Adams's performance, if you notice how she seems a little blasé during this entire life-altering conversation — is that Louise is omniscient about what's to come in her life, but she also knows that she needs to play along with what Shang is saying to her to get vital information to herself in the past.
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If you haven't even downloaded the app onto your phone before, don't fret: This course is designed for people of all Snapchat skill levels, whether you're a tech junkie interested in learning about the platform's ever-changing features — like the new Snap Map page that turns you into an omniscient global snoop — or an aspiring influencer who literally cannot figure out how to create an account.
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All of this is relayed in a kind of American suburban omniscient narrative, born from that knowledge of just how the side door to the garage shuts, and who exactly shut it, and whether that person was coming or going — how each inhabitant comes to live with the secrets that accumulate, and how ignoring them becomes the only way to extend a family member something like privacy.
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The original Watchmen was a comic book series that redefined what superhero comics could be, and in Doomsday Clock, writer Geoff Johns created a story that made that subtext text: Dr. Manhattan, the omniscient blue nude that dominates the original Watchmen, has visited the DC universe of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman and, unbeknownst to everyone, changed its history to create a colder, more violent world.
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When asked about social media, he got onto the topic of music's most omniscient star, Drake, and despite sharing a fundamentally #sad sensibility with one Aubrey Graham, Trent unfortunately doesn't 'get' the appeal: Firstly, the idea of Trent Reznor asking Apple employees to explain Drake to him makes my heart feel kind of sore, because the idea of Trent Reznor aging is not anything that I want to acknowledge anytime soon.
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They have their flaws — that omniscient narrator occasionally adopts a tone that's too preachy, and McGuire's point-of-view characters are too frequently passengers in their own stories — but the central premise of the series (a hidden school in our world, meant to help heal and care for kids who've slipped into some other world, Narnia or Wonderland style) is so irresistible and the characters so well-drawn that these flaws become quibbles.
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Although it's oddly wicked that the master of lies is defeated by an omniscient psychic boy whose father Littlefinger had betrayed, it is frustrating that there is a vague suggestion of scheming by the Stark children that we never verify in detail onscreen or offscreen, unlike all other good schemes in the show (Tywin confessing the Red Wedding, Tyrion confessing to his gambit that exposed Pycelle's loyalty to the queen, Littlefinger and Olenna confessing to the Purple Wedding, etc).
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Here's a recording of one iteration of the play, put out by MLB Network reporter Robert Flores: And just in case you're thinking to yourself, duh, it's a video game, it's omniscient and supposed to be objective and accurate, we've got another Madden gamer who set up basically the same play—but this time with the pass interference setting cranked all the way down to zero: Yup, even a setting where you can allow the players to get away with the exact thing real life Nickell Robey-Coleman got away did not let simulation Robey-Coleman get away with it.
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The biggest evolution, I would say, was the organization recognizing, and I think it had, I think that's why The Daily exists, that your relationship with the New York Times was, for the most part, predicated on this idea that tablets were being handed down to you every morning, and they were very authoritative and omniscient in their voice, and that all of our relationships with journalism are really changing, and that the idea of omniscience itself is held in doubt, and that it may not have ever really existed, that it was more of a conceit.
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