June 4, 2007
Katherine Mangu-Ward, for one, welcomes our new Google surveillance overlords.
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|6.4.07 @ 12:36PM|#
Isn't this what Hop Stop has been doing for years?
|6.4.07 @ 12:46PM|#
Time to buy google stock
Plant Immigration Rights Suppo|6.4.07 @ 12:48PM|#
Hey! I liked Minority Report! I thought it was pretty good movie.
Jack|6.4.07 @ 12:59PM|#
There's only one strip club in this town and it's positively subpar, so I would sure as hell hope you don't get caught coming out of the 'folds
|6.4.07 @ 1:05PM|#
Katherine,
As joe can tell you, one of the biggest tricks is knowing how certain Boston and Boston area locations are pronounced. For instance, Worcester is not pronounced the way it looks. It's pronounced, "Serutan".
Look for more life blogging, where people run around with cameras on their heads making comments about wherever they are. These videos and commentaries will also be plugged into Google Earth/Maps.
|6.4.07 @ 1:41PM|#
Follow some of the street views of Miami, and you can see the psychotic assholes flying by on medians and bike lanes.
Makes me feel at home!
|6.4.07 @ 1:41PM|#
Correction: Psychotic asshole drivers
Russ 2000|6.4.07 @ 3:52PM|#
If you lack directional sense, as I do (and especially if you recently moved to Boston, as I have),
You're in luck! Directional sense does you absolutely no good in Boston.
LarryA|6.4.07 @ 6:42PM|#
If you lack directional sense, as I do (and especially if you recently moved to Boston, as I have), you probably place calls like this one a semi-regular basis:
I thought Garmin was the answer.
|6.4.07 @ 9:39PM|#
Katherine,
also you might want to start calling it a "rotary"
|6.4.07 @ 11:14PM|#
Maybe GOOGLE could have caught OJ dragging the body out to the car....seriously its' much less intrusive than a video cam at a Mall to me
|6.6.07 @ 10:46AM|#
This stuff's been going on for years. Amazon's A9, Microsoft's Live Search Maps; now Google does it an it's a crisis of epic proportions? Give me a break. Privacy's a disappearing commodity. Future generations, who grow up with cameras watching their every move, will not see this as unusual or alarming. Get over it.
|6.8.07 @ 11:00AM|#
I came to Reason looking for a good, reasonable, libertarian argument against Google cam Street Views and what I got was this nonsense!
I'm surprised the editors allowed it to print. I guess GPS systems embedded in people would be okay, too -- so long as the information was delayed.
Sigh. What a disappointing article.