Ok so I don't exactly know a whole lot about what exactly you can do with this program Google is providing now, but I think I have a general idea.
In the past week i've heard and seen many students/adults/etc all messing around with Google Earth. I don't know why so many people are so fantisized by the fact that you can examine cities, states, and countries that have been there for many years. Don't get me wrong, the close view of the cities such as seeing what is there as far as properties and such is definitely a revolution in technology, but has our society gotten so lazy that we don't even bother to use maps, globes or other geographical tools. Instead we use the internet to virtually spy on other cities.
I find it funny that as I sat and wrote this in Bracken library a student sitting next to me was using Google Earth for who knows what. Will the next step be adding moving people live stream of what is actually happening in that city at this very moment. Who knows maybe it already has happend.
Even so much as my mom was asking me about this last night, which is what gave me my inspiration to write about this. Is a Big Brother operation in the near future?
I do believe that Big Brother, with his evil far-seeing satellites, has been around for a while now. I blame the Cold War most days. On a less gloom and doom note, I like Google Earth too - finally, they let us get a little sneak peek of what those satellites are capable of. Just remember - NEVER sunbathe in the nude! ;)
ReplyDeleteIn one of my classes in high school we would play around on that. And basically look at each others houses.
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