TerraVision (1994)

by martyvis on 10/16/2021, 10:20 AM with 12 comments
  • by amayne on 10/17/2021, 2:34 AM

    This is SRI’s (formerly Stanford Research Institute) project with the same name also from 1994 that showed similar capabilities and was one of the reasons the court decided against the claimants in their lawsuit against Google.

    https://www.sri.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/778.pdf

  • by asimpletune on 10/17/2021, 2:09 AM

    I just finished watching the "The Billion Dollar Code" as well. I'm not sure how dramatized the events in the series were, but if even half of it's true then it's pretty damning. From what I can tell, TerraVision was totally legit, and it's pretty shocking to imagine how different our world can be if their founders found the kind of support someone from Silicon Valley could have found.

  • by spurgu on 10/17/2021, 1:10 AM

    The unattributed precursor to Google Earth. Just finished watching The Billion Dollar Code (four episode miniseries) on Netflix and yeah, "Don't be evil" stopped being a thing quite a long time ago. Broke my heart.

  • by alex_cavalcante on 10/19/2021, 4:22 PM

    I had the opportunity to talk to one of devs who created Terravision, an awesome guy. It really made hate Google... I feel guilty for being so deep involved and dependent of this whole G environment.

  • by ahmetyas01 on 10/17/2021, 10:24 AM

    I hate google