Ghosts in the Machine

Think ahead a few decades. All the texts, audio and video produced and archived on the web with latitude and longditude gathered as a matter of course.

I can visit the old family house and my reader brings me up all the ghosts of the past, memories of now dead ancestors. All interwoven into the museum of the physical house. Of course I could travel in virtual space. Hopefully I’m in the Caribean, so I teleport to the old family home. I recognize it from the satellite images and as I come in to land the current occupants present their video avatars. But I’m not interested in them, I’m going backwards in time…

Check out locational based searching in this article:
Scientific American: Seeking Better Web Searches

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