Link: Dispatches From the Hyperlocal Future .
The SeeMonster is fully integrated with a state-of-the-art seamless Geobrowser. With SeeMonster, you can juggle the entire planet with your bare fingertips, including spatially related photo images collated from all over the Web — yes, data from the entire collective social memory of Planet Earth! — and it's all cross-modally spackled and pixelated into an immense, searchable, navigable, linked, tagged, emergent, hybrid-satellite-streetmap virtual Earthwork! The fantastic richness of the imagery... the semantic interconnection... it's the techno-magic of the World Wide Web layered like a tasty olive-oil emulsion right over the Whole Real Wide World (c) (R) (TM)!
It was all I could do not to beam out a hefty down payment right there, but this is definitely one of those "spousal approval" purchases. Even though the Samsung-Olivetti SeeMonster also brews cappucino (because it is a coffee table, after all), where exactly are Janis and I supposed to store our SeeMonster? You could get many of the same benefits from a discreet and feminine pull-down window shade — as opposed to the awesome integrative power of this room-dominating behemoth.
Do we plan to entertain our fellow geopundits? Will the SeeMonster double as a billiard table? *Chi lo sa?*
