May 18, 2002

  • "A few years from now, when my daughter visually zooms in on our house from a million miles away, interfaces conformant with the OpenGIS Grid Coverages Specification will enable the seamless real-time hand-off from the Live Earth image to some commercial one-meter Earth imagery. That zoom will positively affect my daughter's awareness of herself relative to 1) the Earth and 2) the ocean of digital geospatial information and technology our industry is pouring out in front of her."

    Lance McKee Vice President, Corporate Communications Open GIS Consortium, Inc. OGC Supports Gore's Digital Earth


    Hrm...geospatial...blogging?  What will that be like?  Can we have a little spinning earth  in our eProp section that would indicate by flashing lights what location (by traceroute--a method for backtracking to the source PC) our comment/eProps originated from? 


    Could we have an entry-portal map of the world on the main page that would indicate with little red dots the geographical locations of all active current bloggers (say, contributors for the last 15 minutes) ?   Too mundane? 


    Well, maybe, soon we'll be able to accurately map all the originating impulses in the brain and then, by intelligent automated analysis, a blog-spider will be able to match blog content to mapped areas of brain activity and a BAT-scan (Blog-Activated Tomography) will attend every blog posted?  Hrm...I wonder how many BAT-scans will need reference the groin as the source of creative inspiration??

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