2020/10/05

Google Earth’s Universal Texture Conceals Planetary Crisis

● 05/10/2020
“Google’s ‘Universal Texture’ facilitates an endless consumption of the earth, like the escalator carrying shoppers frictionlessly through a mall.”
– Writer and design researcher Lara Chapman, on how the ‘smoothness’ of Google Earth’s mapping technology airbrushes history and conceals a planet in crisis
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