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Wow, that is awesome. I wonder if Google is working on actual hardware "spiders" to crawl the real world.
by TrevorJ 17y ago
Wow, that is awesome. I wonder if Google is working on actual hardware "spiders" to crawl the real world.
- pavel_lishin 17y agoIt would probably be easier and cheaper to make hardware for any given person to wear. It's not like they'd have a shortage of volunteers.
- ulf 17y agoI cannot think of something more Big-Brother-like that every other person wearing a 360° camera helmet. Given enough of those, you can visit every place on earth virtually with live data, including everyone in that location. Hooray...
- baxter 17y agoWhat you're describing sounds like sousveillance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance Inverse surveillance is arguably a good way to combat authoritarian systems.
- almost 17y agoThat reminds of a short story I read recently: http://www.ftrain.com/robot_exclusion_protocol.html http://www.ftrain.com/robot_exclusion_protocol.html
- andreyf 17y agoI've always wanted to work on long-distance model airplanes for the same purpose - maybe I'll do it in my 20% time if I ever get to work there.