Comments on: Friday’s Food for Thought: Google Latitude a Good Thing??; Map of Madoff’s Destruction; and Strange Things Picked up By Google Maps http://www.gotgeoint.com/archives/fridays-food-for-thought-google-latitude-a-good-thing-map-of-madoffs-destruction-and-strange-things-picked-up-by-google-maps/ Welcome to got geoint? - The official blog of USGIF. Explore and respond to all things Geospatial Intelligence, and also connect with us using one or all of the social groups! Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:43:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: It's mellow http://www.gotgeoint.com/archives/fridays-food-for-thought-google-latitude-a-good-thing-map-of-madoffs-destruction-and-strange-things-picked-up-by-google-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-430 It's mellow Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:33:19 +0000 http://www.gotgeoint.com/?p=1135#comment-430 ehh, if you aren't doing anything wrong, who cares how much you're being monitored? Do people who don't do drugs care if they're randomly tested? ehh, if you aren’t doing anything wrong, who cares how much you’re being monitored? Do people who don’t do drugs care if they’re randomly tested?

]]> By: Future Shock http://www.gotgeoint.com/archives/fridays-food-for-thought-google-latitude-a-good-thing-map-of-madoffs-destruction-and-strange-things-picked-up-by-google-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-420 Future Shock Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:04:31 +0000 http://www.gotgeoint.com/?p=1135#comment-420 We are heading for some future where we will be born with implants that can map us, restrain us, locate us etc. Just think, if Bin Laden was forced to have a GPS but in his body at birth, he would be easier to locate now We are heading for some future where we will be born with implants that can map us, restrain us, locate us etc. Just think, if Bin Laden was forced to have a GPS but in his body at birth, he would be easier to locate now

]]> By: USGIF http://www.gotgeoint.com/archives/fridays-food-for-thought-google-latitude-a-good-thing-map-of-madoffs-destruction-and-strange-things-picked-up-by-google-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-418 USGIF Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:52:15 +0000 http://www.gotgeoint.com/?p=1135#comment-418 Definitely great points...on one hand, if it keeps our children safe that is a good thing...on the other...you can't disappear that easily...you may have seen our comment in the blog about how the defense and intel strategy is that everyone has to be some place...so the bad guys are some where on the planet and we have the technologies to find them...but now, wives and girlfriends will have the technology to find their husbands....nesting egret, very funny comment along those lines... Definitely great points…on one hand, if it keeps our children safe that is a good thing…on the other…you can’t disappear that easily…you may have seen our comment in the blog about how the defense and intel strategy is that everyone has to be some place…so the bad guys are some where on the planet and we have the technologies to find them…but now, wives and girlfriends will have the technology to find their husbands….nesting egret, very funny comment along those lines…

]]> By: nesting egret http://www.gotgeoint.com/archives/fridays-food-for-thought-google-latitude-a-good-thing-map-of-madoffs-destruction-and-strange-things-picked-up-by-google-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-417 nesting egret Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:43:08 +0000 http://www.gotgeoint.com/?p=1135#comment-417 The technology clearly has advantages and can be useful in many situations but as an individual already tied to my Blackberry (and by extension my colleagues, working contacts, friends, and family) the concept of being 'globally positioned' is shuddering. Furthermore, if i tell my girlfriend I'm going on a work retreat to Cleveland and i pop-up in Veges, I'm a dead man!! The technology clearly has advantages and can be useful in many situations but as an individual already tied to my Blackberry (and by extension my colleagues, working contacts, friends, and family) the concept of being ‘globally positioned’ is shuddering. Furthermore, if i tell my girlfriend I’m going on a work retreat to Cleveland and i pop-up in Veges, I’m a dead man!!

]]> By: BK http://www.gotgeoint.com/archives/fridays-food-for-thought-google-latitude-a-good-thing-map-of-madoffs-destruction-and-strange-things-picked-up-by-google-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-416 BK Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:00:53 +0000 http://www.gotgeoint.com/?p=1135#comment-416 These developments certainly push us towards an Orwellian future but at the same time, if my daughter gets lost in the woods, and the mapping ability of a cell phone and google guide her to safety (or guides the safety to her), then I can't complain that much Wasn't phrenology the mapping of the brain? These developments certainly push us towards an Orwellian future but at the same time, if my daughter gets lost in the woods, and the mapping ability of a cell phone and google guide her to safety (or guides the safety to her), then I can’t complain that much

Wasn’t phrenology the mapping of the brain?

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