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WOW…Google Street View–Part “this is so cool” and part “this is so scary…like invasion of privacy scary”… It is mostly however, cool. I have no idea how they were able (or who had the time) to photograph (in relatively high quality mind you) every street in New York City, San Francisco, and like 7 other cities. And not only just “A” photo, but full on panoramas from what appears to be every block of the aforementioned cities!
I wonder what will be next. Will they expand to more cities? Or will they get even closer to some sort of ‘Live’ look at things. At what point will people freak out and say, “Enough Google! Back off!” “You already know the entire contents of the web and all computers and everything…” I don’t want to sound like I’m bashing Google… I think most of their stuff is quite impressive. Gmail is very slick, Picassa is quite cool for a free Photo tool, and I always use Google maps over any other map service online. Not to be left out, there is the very impressive Google Earth!
But it does raise the question about when much information becomes too much information. Like I’ve previously posted, I’m really a huge fan of how integrated technology is into our society as a whole. Instant access is a nice nice thing…

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When my world of computers began (back in the early 90’s…before everyone received daily AOL CD’s in the mail and before it took less than 2 hours to download a photo), I bought my first computer…a Mac clone (remember those?) Yes, I loved my Starmax with it’s huge 2gb hard drive and speedy 14.4 modem. I taught myself a little Photoshop (version 3 back then), and learned a little bit about audio editing.

Things were fantastic. And I was a Mac junkie! My subscription to Macworld couldn’t arrive soon enough, and I soaked up the In’s & Out’s of System 7 and OS 8 like a sponge. I got my first computer job editing powerpoint files and tweaking presentations and had the sorry experience of occasionally having to work on the Windows 3.1 machine.Yikes! That was a pain! Crashes, confusing menus, sluggish performance…the whole deal was tough. I had drunk the Mac Kool Aid and was a devotee to the end! Continue Reading »