The satellite images projected by the German company’s algorithm generated the sensation that users were moving anywhere across the screen, in real time, on a photorealistic Earth.Īs expected, ‘the machine of God’, as they called it at the time, caught the attention of technology companies and ended up being officially launched in 1994. The Berlin-based architecture studio ‘ Art + Com‘ led the project. Terravision was conceived in the 1990s as an ‘artistic work‘ on Earth, since it allowed ‘ building’ every corner of the world via three-dimensional (3D) interactive photographs and geographic data, eleven years before Google Earth was released. The trial, reflected in “ The Code of Discord”, a series released by Netflix in 2021, stayed away of the press in its infancy. If not, you should know that it was a project whose owners staged one of the most controversial lawsuits in the history of Google in 2014. Next, we will review what happened, with the intention of reflecting on the role of these large technological conglomerates, currently owners of our data: What was Terravision?
Did you know that Google Earth, the Google product, is the result of a plagiarism from a German company? The 1990s were marked by a boom in technological creativity, driven by the internet boom.
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