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Google Street View Steals Life Little Surprises
Google Street View Steals Life Little Surprises
10-13-2009
10:40 AM
By
buzzbishop
Google
is starting to steal some of the small surprises in life.
Sure, the goal to index all the information in the world is a noble and
valuable effort, but when all the secrets of the world are accessible
with a keyboard, it removes some of the mystery and exhiliration when you discover them on
your own.
I went to
Easter Island
to run a marathon with
Team Diabete
s this past
summer. I was expecting to have chills of awe run down my arms when I
turned the corner and saw the raw
Moai
statues tumbling from a volcanic
crater or standing majestically on the ocean beaches guarding the
shore. But I had done so much research to track the route of the
marathon and plan the vacation, that I had seen all the angles of the
island. Through
photos on Panoramio
to blog entries, travel reviews,
Nova
documentaries and
Lonely Planet
travel episodes I had experienced
the island before I even arrived.
Use Photosynth from
Microsoft
and you can
enter St Peters Basillica
or
the
Sistine Chapel
and get up close to the beauty and wonder of the
architecture and the art. You can virtually enter almost anywhere on
the planet, and as
Google Street View
gets rolled out in more and more
cities (11 in Canada last week) the mysteries of our local
neighborhoods will be as accessible as these internationally popular
monuments. Sure it's great to research your hotel to make sure you can
identify landmarks when you're arriving, or to scope out the
neighborhood, but at the same time it's taking away some of those
little surprises.
It's a cool step and you have to balance where it ends up being, but
Google
has taken away some of life's little surprises which are really
big magical things.
catch the buzz ... pass it on.
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