There hasn't been something this fascinating and disturbing since AOL"s
This makes fiction abstract art because, though intended to capture some slice of human existence, it can't be too true to reality, and can be inappropriate for examining the hard foundation of gritty existence. Nonfiction – and pictures of humans doing human things – transcends in that way.
And while we can make a case for the benefits of indexing this slice of the world's information, it's most definitely time to push Google, and all of us, to consider if that's what we really want. Taking a good hard look at yourself, even if healthy in the long run, just plain sucks in the grimy, stunningly honest interim.
You can blame Joe DiPasquale, founder and CEO of CollegeWikis for the preceding digression. He lets Sonia Arrison at
What will be really interesting is whether the government steps in on behalf of the public to delay or derail this collective self-examination. The official legal stance on this, which is what reporters (and, unfortunately, the Paparazzo) lean on, is that photos taken in the public domain are fair game – anything you can see outside, you can take a picture of.
And that's not going to be a pretty Constitutional fight.
Google's Street Views Getting Existential Slants
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