This reminds me a lot of when Joe Firmage[1][2] created Many One as a portal for all mankind (and aliens) to access all Earth information by zooming around a gl

This reminds me a lot of when Joe Firmage[1][2] created Many One as a portal for all mankind (and aliens) to access all Earth information by zooming around a globe. It was plagued with grand vision and hyperbolic prose when in reality it just wanted to be Google Earth with some plugins. It looks like the guys behind Code Valley have been working on this for a long time with patents[3] dating back to 2003. There's probably some sort of Internet law at work here where the longer an idea has been worked on without traction, the more hyperbolic the prose becomes in order to maintain commitment from the founders. [1] https://en.wiki2.org/wiki/Joe_Firmage https://en.wiki2.org/wiki/Joe_Firmage [2] http://academyofscienceandarts.org/videopage http://academyofscienceandarts.org/videopage [3] http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2006/0161888.html http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2006/0161888.html