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beccaelizabethI was reading fic and I just randomly wondered if you can see Inuvik on Google Maps. And you can. You can in fact get the street view. Not so much street view on Tuktoyaktuk - not so much streets neither. According to Wiki Inuvik has population 3,484 and Tuk has 870. But there's all those satellite view pictures. You can just go look at them. On the computer.
*blinks*
The world has changed here. Pretty recently. Big changing. One decade the far away is just some names on the TV, the next we can poke a couple of keys and go look at all the streets and hear about the parties and see what the churches look like and all.
The degree to which this changes the imaginary landscapes is likely to get greater as time passes. Already I have read old school SF stories that completely lost me because they had the idea of places that nobody was looking down at, on Earth even. This now, with everywhere having a Street View? How will it change how people think of mystery?
The world is huuuuuuge, and yet, we can go look at so many places, without moving at all.
How weird and cool is that?
*blinks*
The world has changed here. Pretty recently. Big changing. One decade the far away is just some names on the TV, the next we can poke a couple of keys and go look at all the streets and hear about the parties and see what the churches look like and all.
The degree to which this changes the imaginary landscapes is likely to get greater as time passes. Already I have read old school SF stories that completely lost me because they had the idea of places that nobody was looking down at, on Earth even. This now, with everywhere having a Street View? How will it change how people think of mystery?
The world is huuuuuuge, and yet, we can go look at so many places, without moving at all.
How weird and cool is that?
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Date: 2010-08-21 07:26 am (UTC)