Exactly. Different tech and different buzzwords over the decades but the idea of building a global GIS or a spatial model of the world is not at all revolutiona

Exactly. Different tech and different buzzwords over the decades but the idea of building a global GIS or a spatial model of the world is not at all revolutionary. Not by half a century. "Digital Twin" is just the latest buzzword, and it's falling short of expectaations per usual. I was hoping the AI buzz would kill the digital twin. But now it looks like we're getting "AI-enabled digital twin". Hype trains a rollin'.