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BY SUSAN KARLIN Wed Sep 21, 2011
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“There are apps that ask what your mood is, or track the transmission of disease," says Nolan, whose new, J.J. Abrams-produced drama premieres tomorrow on CBS. "Gmail software reads your emails for marketing purposes. There’s a dovetailing of corporate and government interests. Cell phones have become like Trojan horses."
Jonathan Nolan always knew Big Brother was watching. But it wasn't until his upcoming series Person of Interest became CBS’s highest-testing drama pilot in 15 years that he realized he’d tapped a cultural nerve about our increasing lack of privacy.
”I often wondered if I was alone in being interested in these things,” says Nolan, 35, known to friends as Jonah, and who’s perhaps best known for co-writing The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and next year’s The Dark Knight Rises with his director brother, Christopher. “Screening the pilot, it was abundantly clear that this has become part of the conversation in a big way.“....
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