Chicagoist: Extra, Extra

joseph_dunphy_in_chicago

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:15:47 -0600

While I have little sympathy to offer for an exposed drug peddlar, if that's what this really was about, I have more than a few misgivings about the whole "Google Earth" concept. Let's say that a woman trying to escape her stalker of an ex-boyfriend is taking her garbage out when that van drops by, her image gets on the site, and the boyfriend finds it. "Far Fetched?", you ask. Maybe now, but pattern recognition is widely known to be a very active field of research, and one day, who knows how long from now, the software might exist for face recognition by computer, raising the question of whether one could do a sort of search through that mass of images, looking for a lookalike for somebody one has a picture of. How comfortable should we be with the possibility of a near future in which everybody can find anybody?

groggy

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:51:52 -0600

google maps is the best...

jmagic

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:32:49 -0600

i obviously can't spell ... nor do i have good grammar skillz this morning.

jmagic

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:31:55 -0600

nipples definitely ruin it ... but hey, at least their not hairy.

matty

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:46:21 -0600

The drug deal is classic. 39th and Vincennes. Must visit!

celerysalt

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:33:17 -0600

where was this photo taken? the ladders are in and there's snow on the ground!