Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/14/burned-down-national-museum-of.html
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Dear Google,
It would be great if you could also create a virtual tour of a functional democracy so that…
TIA
Signed,
Residents in the countries still trying to rebuild what’s left of their own democracies
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Well this is the least evil thing they’ve done for a while.
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Nope. Fuck Google.
I… I have no connection to this museum, still, I think looking at something that has tragically been taken from us will be really painful. I’ll skip this one for now…
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Was unable to determine from the article & video whether this “augmented reality” stuff includes the audio recordings that were lost when the linguistics and anthropology departments burned. Projects like this usually don’t handle sound well.
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My thoughts too.
I came to say :“See, Google? Doing no evil isn’t so hard after all. Try it some more. (Again).”
I always suspected the mission of capturing / documenting all the world’s knowledge was only half a sentence. The other half being: "… and ruthlessly exploit it’.
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Nothing is permanent, not you or me, the planet, the universe. Which means we must appreciate what we have in the here and now.
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