pushed to the world we cannot control
17:07 | 02-06-2013 | Economics, Geography, Google, Privacy | 1 Comment
плюс, Google не оставит в покое и географию:
Last February, in an interview with the technology blog TechCrunch, a senior Google executive expressed a rather philosophical—even postmodernist—view on the future of maps. “If you look at a map and if I look at a map, should it always be the same for you and me? I’m not sure about that, because I go to different places than you do,” said Daniel Graf, director of Google Maps for mobile.
In the near future (Google says it will “be rolling it out to more people in the coming days and weeks”), the maps we see will be dynamically generated and highly personalized, giving preferential treatment to the places frequented by our social networking friends, the places we mention in our emails, the sites we look up on the search engine.
оно и логично — как и с любым другим сервисом, их волнует не решение задач (например, Gmail — это, очевидно, не подарок всем и каждому для управления электронной почтой), а доходы от рекламы:
In Google’s world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.
мы отнюдь не пользователи Google, — наоборот, как известно, мы и есть товар.
[…] или, например, снова географические карты — что это такое? I’ve seen maps that I find completely terrifying. Maps of uranium mining and of various illnesses in the Navajo reservations—they’re just insane. They just make you furious. Bill Bunge’s map [above] — which I still think is one of the great maps, the map of where white commuters in Detroit [ran over] black children while going home from work—that’s a terrifying map, and that’s an amazing map. […]