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We have learned the answers, all the answers. It is the ques-
tions we do not know.
Archibald MacLeish
Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.
Lord Macaulay
In his book The Anderson Tapes, the late best-selling author
Lawrence Sanders described a crime, every detail of which
was recorded somewhere on someone’s surveillance tape.
Sanders was commenting on the loss of privacy in our modern
society and exaggerating the intrusion of surveillance, but he
was also describing a situation wherein the investigators had
so much data, from so many sources, that they were unable to
see the forest for the trees. Not until after the crime had been ...