“All of the information accumulated in a lifetime, we learn, is less than a drop in the ocean of information, and perhaps a creature that can collect more information and hold onto it longer is … more than human. In describing this vision of an evolving intelligence, Corinthians is evoked twice: ‘For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I am known.”” —Roger Ebert’s review of the 1996 Ghost in the Shell